How to prevent my strings from being translated to other languages than English?

Question

I am trying to prevent my app from automatically being translated to other languages (such as Bulgarian in my case). I want all of my strings to be in English. I tried setting the timezone to "Europe\London" (because I am in the UK) but that did not quite work. Is there a way how I can ensure that my app's settings (all of them) are not being translated when somebody install my app in other than the UK country?

I am using dates in my app and I am using SimpleDateFormatter. I think this is causing the issue of translating some of the strings. So what I did is set the timezone to it as well before using the strings from it like that:

public static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
String time = sdf.format(new Date());
mPurchasedDate.setText(day + " " + numDay + " " + mont + " at " + time);

But that did not work either.

PS: I have not added any localization in my app. I have only one strings.xml folder and the strings there are in English.

Answer 1

If you only want to use a specific Locale for SimpleDateFormat, use the constructor that takes a Locale: new SimpleDateFormat(String, Locale):

public static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss", Locale.UK);