Trying to build a dropdown language menu

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Greetings,

I’m looking for assistance in the design of my first app. I’ve got no coding experience (though I’ve been a QA for over two decades).

I’m trying to build a dropdown menu that would present a list of languages for the user to click on. When he does, the app’s language would change to the language selection. Right now, imagine an “Earth” icon, the mobile user presses it, the menu opens up and lists all of the available languages. He clicks one, and the app then switches to the selected language.

I can’t figure out how to do this. So far, I’ve created a group, and inserted my buttons. Every buttons have text on them representing the available language options. IF THIS METHOD is correct, I need to put in blocks to initiate the language changes for each button.

I’ve tried finding the answer with GROK and ChatGPT, but they are not precise enough. GROK has mentioned looking into my settings to add languages but I don’t seem to be able to. I have access to English and what I suppose is Chinese Mandarin. I’ve looked at many youtube videos, but they’re mostly about text-to-speech translations and dictionary apps.

So that’s it, if anyone can help, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks!

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This could be very complex, how many languages are you looking to have in your list? Will the outputs be stored in your app or will you be pulling from the web?

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Ideally, I’d do 10 languages, and since there’s not much text (buttons, screen names, and an About page, all translated already and in a JSON stored locally, created via ChatGPT), it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

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Try something like this: Thunkable

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Thanks, I can only work on it Thursday so I’ll give that a try then. Thank you!