Change Locale

When running tests with Appium, you can choose to set a specific locale for the device or emulator, by using the appium:locale capability.

Specifying this capability will make sure the device/emulator and app will display or format data such as dates, time, decimal separators and calendars according to the specified country's regional conventions.

On iOS, you can use a locale format such as fr_CA to indicate you want the french region in Canada. More information is available in the Locale IDs documentation.

You can also change the Simulator UI locale at runtime using the following script command: mobile: configureLocalization.

desired_caps = {
    'appium:locale': 'ES'
}

DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appium:locale", "ES");

$capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
$capabilities->setCapability("appium:locale", "ES");

desired_cap = {
    'appium:locale': 'ES'
}

var capabilities = {
    'appium:locale': 'ES'
}

DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();
capability.SetCapability("appium:locale", "ES");

Android locale codes

iOS locale codes