I was working with a client trying to decide on long and short DateFormats for an international mobile application. (Yes, that’s a mouthful.)
I wasn’t able to quickly find any documentation on the Java SimpleDateFormat strings by locale…so I did what any Passionate Programmer would do, and I wrote a method to do it for me.
for(Locale l :Locale.getAvailableLocales())
{
out.write("Locale = "+ l.getDisplayLanguage()+", "+ l.getDisplayCountry());
out.write("n");
out.write(" Long Months…");
out.write("n");
String[] months =newDateFormatSymbols(l).getMonths();
for(String m : months)
{
out.write(" "+ m);
out.write("n");
}
out.write("n");
out.write(" Short Months…");
out.write("n");
String[] smonths =newDateFormatSymbols(l).getShortMonths();
for(String m : smonths)
{
out.write(" "+ m);
out.write("n");
}
out.write("n");
}
out.close();
Then, I needed to get this file off of my emulator. To do that, I opened the DDMS perspective, selected my emulator in the Devices tab (emulator-5554), and navigated to datadata(applicaton name)files(file name).