diff --git a/android/src/main/java/SuperTuxKartActivity.java b/android/src/main/java/SuperTuxKartActivity.java
index 9862948ff..189b24c85 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/SuperTuxKartActivity.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/SuperTuxKartActivity.java
@@ -524,5 +524,24 @@ public class SuperTuxKartActivity extends SDLActivity
     public int getKeyboardHeight()          { return m_keyboard_height.get(); }
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     public int getMovedHeight()                { return m_moved_height.get(); }
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public String getLocaleString()
+    {
+        String language = "";
+        if (mCurrentLocale != null)
+        {
+            language = mCurrentLocale.getLanguage();
+            if (language == "iw")
+                language = "he";
+            else if (language == "in")
+                language = "id";
+            else if (language == "ji")
+                language = "yi";
+            String country = mCurrentLocale.getCountry();
+            if (country != "")
+                language += "_" + country;
+        }
+        return language;
+    }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/utils/translation.cpp b/src/utils/translation.cpp
index 9bdcfef53..4c2b433b7 100644
--- a/src/utils/translation.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/translation.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@
 #include "utils/log.hpp"
 #include "utils/string_utils.hpp"
 
-#ifdef MOBILE_STK
+#ifdef ANDROID
+#include <jni.h>
+#include "utils/utf8/unchecked.h"
+#include "SDL_system.h"
+#elif defined(MOBILE_STK)
 #include "SDL_locale.h"
 #endif
 
@@ -369,6 +373,72 @@ Translations::Translations() //: m_dictionary_manager("UTF-16")
                 language = (char*)&languageStr;
                 language = StringUtils::findAndReplace(language, "-", "_");
             }
+#elif defined(ANDROID)
+            JNIEnv* env = (JNIEnv*)SDL_AndroidGetJNIEnv();
+            jobject native_activity = NULL;
+            jclass class_native_activity = NULL;
+            jmethodID method_id = NULL;
+            jstring text = NULL;
+            if (env == NULL)
+            {
+                Log::error("Translation",
+                    "constructor is unable to SDL_AndroidGetJNIEnv.");
+                goto end;
+            }
+
+            native_activity = (jobject)SDL_AndroidGetActivity();
+            if (native_activity == NULL)
+            {
+                Log::error("Translation",
+                    "constructor is unable to SDL_AndroidGetActivity.");
+                goto end;
+            }
+
+            class_native_activity = env->GetObjectClass(native_activity);
+            if (class_native_activity == NULL)
+            {
+                Log::error("Translation",
+                    "constructor is unable to find object class.");
+                goto end;
+            }
+
+            method_id = env->GetMethodID(class_native_activity,
+                "getLocaleString", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
+            if (method_id == NULL)
+            {
+                Log::error("Translation",
+                    "constructor is unable to find method id.");
+                goto end;
+            }
+
+            text =
+                (jstring)env->CallObjectMethod(native_activity, method_id);
+            if (text == NULL)
+            {
+                Log::error("Translation",
+                    "Failed to CallObjectMethod for constructor.");
+                goto end;
+            }
+
+end:
+            if (text != NULL)
+            {
+                const uint16_t* utf16_text =
+                    (const uint16_t*)env->GetStringChars(text, NULL);
+                if (utf16_text != NULL)
+                {
+                    const size_t str_len = env->GetStringLength(text);
+                    utf8::unchecked::utf16to8(
+                        utf16_text, utf16_text + str_len,
+                        std::back_inserter(language));
+                    env->ReleaseStringChars(text, utf16_text);
+                }
+                env->DeleteLocalRef(text);
+            }
+            if (class_native_activity != NULL)
+                env->DeleteLocalRef(class_native_activity);
+            if (native_activity != NULL)
+                env->DeleteLocalRef(native_activity);
 #elif defined(MOBILE_STK)
             SDL_Locale* locale = SDL_GetPreferredLocales();
             if (locale)