Button to change the language Flutter

Because accepted answer has some shortcomings I will set new one:

Change locale of App can be done in several ways, here i will show two way:

Way 1 (using rxdart and SharedPreferences plugins):

For more understanding i was created project to explain how do that, you can find it in https://github.com/AnasSafi/flutter_localization_example

Output of project:

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Way 2:

Note 1: I was used SharedPreferences plugin to save locale which client select.

Note 2: Replace ar and ps with your default locale ...

Full code of main.dart file:

import 'package:flutter/cupertino.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
import 'package:flutter_localizations/flutter_localizations.dart';
import 'package:flutter_easyloading/flutter_easyloading.dart';
import 'package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart';

void main() {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized(); //To solve problem (ServicesBinding.defaultBinaryMessenger was accessed before the binding was initialized)
  runApp(MainApp());
}

class MainApp extends StatefulWidget {
  const MainApp({Key? key}) : super(key: key);
  
  /*
  To Change Locale of App
   */
  static void setLocale(BuildContext context, Locale newLocale) async {
    _MainAppState? state = context.findAncestorStateOfType<_MainAppState>();

    var prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
    prefs.setString('languageCode', newLocale.languageCode);
    prefs.setString('countryCode', "");

    state?.setState(() {
      state._locale = newLocale;
    });
    
  }

  @override
  _MainAppState createState() => _MainAppState();
}

class _MainAppState extends State<MainApp> {
  Locale _locale = Locale('ar', 'ps');

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    this._fetchLocale().then((locale) {
      setState(() {
        this._locale = locale;
      });
    });
  }


  /*
  To get local from SharedPreferences if exists
   */
  Future<Locale> _fetchLocale() async {
    var prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();

    String languageCode = prefs.getString('languageCode') ?? 'ar';
    String countryCode = prefs.getString('countryCode') ?? 'ps';

    return Locale(languageCode, countryCode);
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      locale: _locale,
      localizationsDelegates: [
        GlobalMaterialLocalizations.delegate,
        GlobalWidgetsLocalizations.delegate,
        GlobalCupertinoLocalizations.delegate,
        const FallbackCupertinoLocalisationsDelegate(),
      ],
      supportedLocales: [
        const Locale('en', ''), // English, no country code
        const Locale('ar', ''), // Arabic, no country code
      ],
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.deepPurple,
      ),
      home: InitializeApp(), // here use your own home name...
    );
  }
}


/*
  To solve problem of hold press on inputs
 */
class FallbackCupertinoLocalisationsDelegate extends LocalizationsDelegate<CupertinoLocalizations> {
  const FallbackCupertinoLocalisationsDelegate();

  @override
  bool isSupported(Locale locale) => true;

  @override
  Future<CupertinoLocalizations> load(Locale locale) =>
      DefaultCupertinoLocalizations.load(locale);

  @override
  bool shouldReload(FallbackCupertinoLocalisationsDelegate old) => false;
}

Now from any other class you need to change locale from it, you can use my way:

Import main.dart file, Then use my simple DropdownButton:

Note: replace value: AppLocalizations.of(context)!.locale.toString(), this line with your way to get current locale of app...

import 'package:yout_project_name/main.dart';

DropdownButton(
  onChanged: (v) => setState(() {
    MainApp.setLocale(context, Locale(v.toString(), ""));
  }),
  value: AppLocalizations.of(context)!.locale.toString(), // change this line with your way to get current locale to select it as default in dropdown
  items: [
    DropdownMenuItem(
      child: Text( 'English'), value: 'en'
    ),
    DropdownMenuItem(
      child: Text( 'العربية'), value: 'ar'
    ),
  ],
)

You have to use Localizations given from Flutter. You have to use custom delegate and JSON files for your supported languages. I implemented using bloc

Steps to follow,

1. Create a folder assets/languages/ in the root folder
2. Create JSON files for your supported languages. Like: en.json, es.json
3. Create a key, value pairs for your strings in each file accordingly with their specific language strings
4. In main.dart create default locale, supportedLocales and localizationsDelegates.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter_bloc/flutter_bloc.dart';
import 'package:flutter_localizations/flutter_localizations.dart';

import 'package:movie_app/common/constants/languages.dart';
import 'package:movie_app/presentation/app_localizations.dart';
import 'package:movie_app/presentation/blocs/language/language_bloc.dart';
import 'package:movie_app/presentation/journeys/home/home_screen.dart';

class MovieApp extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _MovieAppState createState() => _MovieAppState();
}

class _MovieAppState extends State<MovieApp> {
  LanguageBloc _languageBloc;

  @override
  void initState() {
    _languageBloc = LanguageBloc();
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    _languageBloc.close();
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return BlocProvider<LanguageBloc>.value(
      value: _languageBloc,
      child: BlocBuilder<LanguageBloc, LanguageState>(
        builder: (context, state) {
          if (state is LanguageLoaded) {
            return MaterialApp(
                debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
                title: 'Movie App',
                home: HomeScreen(),
                supportedLocales:
                    Languages.languages.map((e) => Locale(e.code)).toList(),
                locale: state.locale,
                localizationsDelegates: [
                  AppLocalizations.delegate,
                  GlobalMaterialLocalizations.delegate,
                  GlobalWidgetsLocalizations.delegate,
                ],
              );
          }
          return SizedBox.shrink();
        },
      ),
    );
  }
}

5. Now create Languages Language models and constants

class LanguageEntity {
  final String code;
  final String value;

  const LanguageEntity({
     this.code,
     this.value,
  });
}

class Languages {
  const Languages._();

  static const languages = [
    LanguageEntity(code: 'en', value: 'English'),
    LanguageEntity(code: 'es', value: 'Spanish'),
  ];
}

6. Now Create app localization delegate

import 'dart:convert';

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
import 'package:movie_app/common/constants/languages.dart';

class AppLocalizations {
  final Locale locale;

  AppLocalizations(this.locale);

  static const LocalizationsDelegate<AppLocalizations> delegate =
      _AppLocalizationDelagate();

  static AppLocalizations of(context) =>
      Localizations.of<AppLocalizations>(context, AppLocalizations);

  Map<String, String> _localisedString;

  Future<bool> load() async {
    final jsonString = await rootBundle
        .loadString('assets/languages/${locale.languageCode}.json');
    final Map<String, dynamic> jsonMap = json.decode(jsonString);
    _localisedString =
        jsonMap.map((key, value) => MapEntry(key, value.toString()));
    return true;
  }

  String translate(String key) {
    return _localisedString[key];
  }
}

class _AppLocalizationDelagate extends LocalizationsDelegate<AppLocalizations> {
  const _AppLocalizationDelagate();

  @override
  bool isSupported(Locale locale) {
    return Languages.languages
        .map((e) => e.code)
        .toList()
        .contains(locale.languageCode);
  }

  @override
  bool shouldReload(covariant LocalizationsDelegate old) {
    return false;
  }

  @override
  Future<AppLocalizations> load(Locale locale) async {
    AppLocalizations appLocalizations = AppLocalizations(locale);
    await appLocalizations.load();
    return appLocalizations;
  }
}

7. Now create blocs

import 'dart:async';

import 'package:bloc/bloc.dart';
// import 'package:equatable/equatable.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:movie_app/common/constants/languages.dart';
import 'package:movie_app/domain/entities/language_entity.dart';

part 'language_event.dart';
part 'language_state.dart';

class LanguageBloc extends Bloc<LanguageEvent, LanguageState> {
  LanguageBloc() : super(LanguageLoaded(Locale(Languages.languages[0].code)));

  @override
  Stream<LanguageState> mapEventToState(
    LanguageEvent event,
  ) async* {
    if (event is ToggleLanguageEvent) {
      yield LanguageLoaded(Locale(event.language.code));
    }
  }
}

8.Now create event

part of 'language_bloc.dart';

abstract class LanguageEvent {
  const LanguageEvent();
}

class ToggleLanguageEvent extends LanguageEvent {
  final LanguageEntity language;

  ToggleLanguageEvent(this.language);
}

9. Now create state

part of 'language_bloc.dart';

abstract class LanguageState {
  const LanguageState();

}

class LanguageLoaded extends LanguageState {
  final Locale locale;

  LanguageLoaded(this.locale);
}

10.Now Create button to change languages.

RaisedButton(child: ,RaisedButton(child: Text('Switch', 
     onPressed: (int index) {
        BlocProvider.of<LanguageBloc>(context).add(
          ToggleLanguageEvent(
            Languages.languages[index], // index value can be 0 or 1 in our case
          ),                            // 0 - en, 1 - es
        );
        Navigator.of(context).pop();
      },
);

Also, please refer the link for clear implementation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-2p3zB1z8k

If you are using provider as state management then you can follow this article .

https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-internationalization-the-easy-way-using-provider-and-json-c47caa4212b2

You can set the locale property of MaterialApp with your favourite state management method. For example:

class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _MyAppState createState() => _MyAppState();

  static _MyAppState of(BuildContext context) => context.findAncestorStateOfType<_MyAppState>();
}

class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {
  Locale _locale;

  void setLocale(Locale value) {
    setState(() {
      _locale = value;
    });
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      locale: _locale,
      home: Dashboard(),
    );
  }
}

class Dashboard extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Column(
      children: [
        TextButton(
          child: Text("Set locale to German"),
          onPressed: () => MyApp.of(context).setLocale(Locale.fromSubtags(languageCode: 'de')),
        ),
        TextButton(
          child: Text("Set locale to English"),
          onPressed: () => MyApp.of(context).setLocale(Locale.fromSubtags(languageCode: 'en')),
        ),
      ],
    );
  }
}