Setting default language for iPhone app on first run

Question

I\'m developing an application that should support two languages: English and French. However because English translation is not done yet we want to deploy it in French only

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue, and the only way I could fix it was to have the piece of code at the earliest stage in the app, i.e. in main.c:

 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

     NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

     NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
     [defaults setObject:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"fr", nil] forKey:@"AppleLanguages"];
     [defaults synchronize];

     int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, nil);

     [pool release];
     return retVal;
 }

I'm not really sure it's a good practice but it worked as expected in my case.

Answer 2

Sounds messy. Why not just uncheck the unfinished English resources from the target, so they won't get deployed? Also, have you looked into the CFBundleDevelopmentRegion setting in Info.plist?