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Manage localization files for a suite of BlackBerry device applications

If you create a suite of BlackBerry® device applications, organize resources into separate projects for each locale. The BlackBerry® Integrated Development Environment provides a built-in initialization mechanism. You only need to create an empty initialization class with an empty main(). If you support a large number of locales, create a single library project for all resource header (.rrh) files and set the project type to Library. For each resource locale in the library, define a dependency between the projects.
  1. Open the BlackBerry® Integrated Development Environment.
  2. Create a project for each resource bundle (locale), including the root locale.
  3. Give the projects for each resource locale the same name as the project for the root locale, followed by a double underscore (__), the language code, and, optionally, an underscore (_) followed by the country code. For example, if the root locale project is named com_company_app, the projects for each locale would be named com_company_app__en, com_company_app__en_GB, and com_company_app__fr.
  4. Right-click the project, and then click Properties.
  5. On the Build tab, in the Output file name field, type a name for the compiled file, without a file name extension.
  6. Create an initialization file. 
    package com.rim.samples.device.resource;
import net.rim.device.api.i18n.*;
public class init {
public static void main (String[] args) { }
}
  7. Create one resource header file for each BlackBerry device application.
  8. Copy the resource header (.rrh) files to the project for each BlackBerry device application.
  9. Copy the resource header files to each resource locale project.
  10. Create one resource content file for each BlackBerry device application.
  11. Create one resource content file for each supported locale.
  12. In each resource locale project, right-click each .rrh file, and then click Properties.
  13. Select Dependency only. Do not build.
  14. Add the resource content (.rrc) files to the projects for the appropriate locales.
Parent topic: Localizing BlackBerry device applications

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