Problem with copying over styles.xml
from values
to values-<lang>
is that it is not allowed and confuses Android since it is a duplicate. However allowed resources in values-<lang>
are strings.xml
and arrays.xml
as these resources are the only ones that are subject to become translated.
However it is possible to have styles.xml
, dimens.xml
and colors.xml
in values-<lang>
folders when they are targeted specific versions of the API. So they would have to be in i.e. values-de-v11
.