Android plurals treatment of "zero"
android
Solution
The Android resource method of internationalisation is quite limited. I have had much better success using the standard `java.text.MessageFormat`.
Basically, all you have to do is use the standard string resource like this:
<resources>
<string name="item_shop">{0,choice,0#No items|1#One item|1<{0} items}</string>
</resources>
Then, from the code all you have to do is the following:
String fmt = getResources().getText(R.string.item_shop).toString();
textView.setText(MessageFormat.format(fmt, amount));
You can read more about the format strings in the javadocs for MessageFormat
Problem
If have the following plural ressource in my strings.xml: ``` <plurals name="item_shop"> <item quantity="zero">No item</item> <item quantity="one">One item</item> <item quantity="other">%d items</item> </plurals> ``` I'm showing the result to the user using: ``` textView.setText(getQuantityString(R.plurals.item_shop, quantity, quantity)); ``` It's working well with 1 and above, but if quantity is 0 then I see "0 items". Is "zero" value supported only in Arabic language as the documentation seems to indicate? Or am I missing something?