Activity is blinking after locale change in Android 4.1+

Question

I have implemented custom locale selection about a year ago but after 4.1 release users start to complain on constant activity blinking. Here is code I\'m using (compiled fr

Answer 1

This line caused solution to fail:

getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(newConfig, getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

Correct (at least it works) implementation is defined here https://stackoverflow.com/a/14010044/554336 :

Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getResources().updateConfiguration(config, getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

So new configuration instance should be created every time.