Switch language of Android app from German back to English?

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• ravi Onshape Employees Posts: 36

  December 2016

  Mobile apps picks the language preferences and language resources from host operating system. Since most of mobile devices are already personalized by users, I thought is actually better than browser world where browser picks language by location/ip address. Can you give me some more insights into the advantages of keeping phone in German language and switching only Onshape to English? 

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• Hakro Member Posts: 67 ✭✭✭

  December 2016

  @ravi: I am using Onshape/browser in English because video, tutorial, training, support, blog and forum is in English. So I am used to the special English terms and commands of Onshape and I would like to use Onshape/AndroidApp in English also. But I want my tablet and all other apps remain in German. Maybe it´s only an idividual case.
  

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• ravi Onshape Employees Posts: 36

  December 2016

  @hakro Thanks for clarification. We will be converting all other content to German eventually. We will continue to monitor this plan an enhancement if we see more people run into this issue.
  

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• niels_wittje Member Posts: 1 ✭

  June 2018

  Hey,

  I just found this post while trying out onshape and wanted to revive it because this is also problematic for me. I am searching for a cad solution where I can work also on the road offline with my ipad on projects, so I downloaded the ios app, but I am used to a complete workflow in english (coming from a student Fusion 360 version and Inventor previously). I did and learned everything mechanical, design etc in english and do not even know most of the terms in german. Is there any progress of making ons also available with a language selector on IOS at some point? I believe many people would probably have the same
  

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• michael_engelhard Member Posts: 2 EDU

  September 4

  Since Android 13 there is now a (slightly complicated) way to achieve this:
  Android now provides a way to set different languages per app. Unfortunately though, apps need to opt in to that, which the Onshape app has not done. But there is a way around this:

  1. First you'll need a tool called adb (android debug bridge). See here on how to install and configure it: https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/
  2. Then run the following command: adb shell settings put global settings_app_locale_opt_in_enabled false
  3. Restart your device
  4. Go to the App info page of the Onshape app (or Settings -> System -> Languages -> App languages) and change the language there.
  5. (Optionally you can now disable the USB debugging and developer options enabled in step 1 again.)

  See also here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/wrlgh2/how_to_make_every_app_appear_in_android_13s_new/

  (If any Onshape dev is reading this: enabling this for the app by default seems to be pretty simple, just one or two build config entries: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/app-languages )

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