Per-App Language Preferences - Part 2

Posted by Neelansh Sahai Android Developer Relations Engineer (on Twitter and LinkedIn)Context In part 1 of the Per-App Language Preferences blog, we discussed what the feature is, how developers benefit from it, how to implement the feature, and the strong business impact of catering to multilingual users. In this part of the blog, we'll discuss how various top apps migrated to the Per-App Languages Feature and how it benefited them. Developer Success Stories Here are some top apps that migrated to the Per-App Languages Preferences APIs. Let’s have a look at them. LinkedIn is a business and employment oriented online platform that is primarily used for professional networking and career development. It bridges the gap between an employer and a job seeker, by providing both a common ground to connect. LinkedIn operates over a huge set of 875+ M registered users spread across more than 200 countries and territories.Due to the several regions they cover, it becomes important

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Posted by Neelansh Sahai Android Developer Relations Engineer (on Twitter and LinkedIn)

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In part 1 of the Per-App Language Preferences blog, we discussed what the feature is, how developers benefit from it, how to implement the feature, and the strong business impact of catering to multilingual users. In this part of the blog, we'll discuss how various top apps migrated to the Per-App Languages Feature and how it benefited them.

Developer Success Stories

Here are some top apps that migrated to the Per-App Languages Preferences APIs. Let’s have a look at them.

LinkedIn is a business and employment oriented online platform that is primarily used for professional networking and career development. It bridges the gap between an employer and a job seeker, by providing both a common ground to connect. LinkedIn operates over a huge set of 875+ M registered users spread across more than 200 countries and territories.

Due to the several regions they cover, it becomes important to support multiple languages in the app. LinkedIn supports 26 Languages in their app right now, and this brings forward an opportunity to provide the users with the best experiences of latest android features. With this as the target, the LinkedIn team invested their efforts in migrating to the new Per-App Language Preferences APIs, and went ahead to provide their consumers the complete flexibility and features of Android 13. The team also quoted, “It was an easy integration with minimal code changes”.

MyJio is the-one-stop destination for recharges, managing accounts & Jio devices, UPI & payments, entertainment services with movies, music, news, games, quizzes & a lot more. With over 500 M+ total installs spread across the globe, MyJio aims to provide its users better access to a variety of utilities. Also as the user-base of MyJio is quite vast, the app supports a total of over 12+ Languages. With these many features and a wide diversity of active multilingual users, MyJio has a strong reason to localize their app using the best practices.

MyJio developers implemented the Per App Language Preferences APIs right along with the Android 13 release, allowing their users the flexibility to select a language for their app from system settings as well.

One of the major use-cases was to retain user's language preference, when users switch devices and then log in again from the same account. In this case, when the data is restored from a previous backup, the language preference is also restored along with the rest of the data, maintaining the seamless MyJio user experience across devices. This shows the API's flexibility to work well with other Android features like Backup and Restore, and helps developers give their users a better user experience.

With over 16.7M+ monthly transacting customers in more than 1000 cities across India, it is one of the most popular food ordering and restaurant discovery services in the region. This also means that the app is used in several languages. Zomato currently supports over 15 languages on its app.

The Zomato team wanted to make the user experience for users across geographies to be very seamless and delightful. Localizing the app based on the region and user preference was an important step in this direction. Zomato was quick to respond to the changes that were introduced in Android 13. They went ahead and migrated their language-switching logic to Per-App Language Preferences, within a week. Thereby helping their users find an easy way to use Zomato in their preferred language.

FROM THE DEVELOPERS :

At Zomato, providing the best customer experience possible is the core of our business and we believe localization is very critical in giving our customers a pleasant experience on the platform. Our team integrated with the new A13 Per-App Language Preferences API provided by Google to make it easy for our users to switch their preferred language on Zomato.

The ease of integrating the API helped us get it done effortlessly in less than a week’s time. Backward compatibility and stability of the API ensured that we are not compromising on the experience of our customers. With this, we hope to provide a better experience to the customer in their journey of online ordering via Zomato.

OkCredit is a credit management app with over 50M+ downloads, having total annual transactions of around 50 Billion USD on the app. As OKCredit supports both local and large-scale businesses and also around 10+ languages in their app, it was critical for them to support the ability to seamlessly switch the app language so that more users are able to onboard on their platform.

The developers from OkCredit have always been quick to adopt changes introduced in Android. They recently adopted the Per-App Language Preferences APIs within the timeframe of a week, providing their end users a better and more seamless experience around switching their app languages at their convenience.

FROM THE DEVELOPERS :

The demand for using apps in vernacular language is steadily growing in India. After Google announced Per-App Language Preferences recently, it was a straightforward decision to integrate them. The implementation was straightforward, stable, and compatible with older Android versions.

Conclusion

We saw that some top apps have implemented the Per-App Language Preferences APIs in their apps and have also circulated the updates out to the users. This easy migration was possible in such a short timespan due to the low amount of effort investment and minimal code changes required. Lastly, here are some resources that can help you understand the feature better.