ADB Change Language

Change locale (language) via ADB. No need to root the device.

Change locale (language) of your device via ADB (on Android OS version 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, 5.0, 4.4, 4.3, 4.2 and older). No need to root your device! With ADB (Android Debug Bridge) on your computer, you can fast switch the device locale to see how your application UI looks on different languages.

Usage:

- install this app

- setup adb connection to your device (http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html)

- Android OS 4.2 onwards (tip: you can copy the command here and paste it to your command console):

adb shell pm grant net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage android.permission.CHANGE_CONFIGURATION

- Language change example 1, Brazilian Portuguese:

adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language pt-rBR

- Language change example 2, French and English:

adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language fr,en

This tool is especially handy for developers who want to add locale switching to (test) automation. Tool works on all the latest public OS versions, verified on Android OS 8.0 (Oreo, Google Pixel XL) 7.0 (Nougat, LG G5), 6.0 (Marshmallow, Nexus 6 and Nexus 9), 5.0 (Lollipop, Nexus 5), 4.4 (Kitkat, Galaxy S5), 4.3, 4.2, 4.1 (Jelly Bean), 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich, Asus Transformer tablet).

Some of the common languages for quick reference (copy-paste):

Arabic: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language ar

Chinese (Simplified): adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language zh-rCN

Chinese (Traditional): adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language zh-rTW

Danish: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language da

Dutch: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language du

English: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language en

Finnish: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language fi

French: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language fr

German: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language de

Greek: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language el

Hebrew: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language iw

Italian: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language it

Japanese: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language ja

Korean: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language ko

Norwegian: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language no

Polish: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language po

Portuguese: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language pt

Portuguese (Brazilian): adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language pt-rBR

Russian: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language ru

Spanish: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language es

Swedish: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language se

Thai: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language th

Turkish: adb shell am start -n net.sanapeli.adbchangelanguage/.AdbChangeLanguage -e language tr

For a complete list of language codes, see http://stackoverflow.com/a/30028371/1097104.