Android Question Arabic phones problem

[Addo]

Happy New Year every one , i have a simple issue i am trying to use the date of the phone to grab some information from a database

database date is in english which means if the phone date is in arabic the client cannot grab any data from the destination

i have tried to work around this because i ask this question before

so i added this line of code in the service create of the app

Dim ju As JavaObject
   
    ju.InitializeStatic("java.util.Locale").RunMethod("setDefault", Array(ju.GetField("US")))

on some phone this works fine but sadly on phones that hold android 7 and above it does not help. the date output remains in arabic , what could be a solution in this case ?

 

[Erel]

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/unparseable-date.75927/#post-481825

Have you added it to Service_Create of the starter service?

 

[Addo]

service create i am not using starter service

 

[Erel]

You can add the starter service just for this. It is very useful.

 

[Addo]

i will try it out happy new year

 

[Addo]

sadly on android 7 + the date is still arabic

 

[Erel]

Can you upload a small program that reproduces it?

 

[Addo]

sure here is it

 

[Addo]

here is the actual problem if the app have only 1 activity , the date shows in english in arabic phones and no problems at all .

But

if the app has 2 activities and the date is in the secondary activity the date shows in arabic . this is another sample of the problem

 

[Erel]

Add this sub to the starter service:

Sub SetLocale
   Dim ju As JavaObject
   ju.InitializeStatic("java.util.Locale").RunMethod("setDefault", Array(ju.GetField("US")))
End Sub

Call it from Activity_Create of each activity:

CallSub(Starter, "SetLocale")