How to manage RTL languages phones in English application

Question

I am programming an Android application. This application isn't translated to any right to left language (like Arabic or Hebrew). I've noticed that right to left language people has it in English, but with right to left layout. The drawer menu is on the right instead of the left and the text is right aligned.

What is the good practice to manage this? Should I let the RTL layout because they are used to it or should I force LTR layout because the app is in English?

Answer 1

If you’re not supporting RTL languages you should not support RTL layouts (LTR languages looks pretty bad in RTL languages).

Just add android:supportRtl="false" attribute in your manifest's application tag.

It should solve it.

Even though false is the default value, one of your dependencies can override it to true if you don't set it explicitly.

Confirm that this is the issue by checking the final merged manifest if android:supportRtl is true.