I know which languages the OS is available in from the MSDN documentation but I am looking for a way to retrieve this with code. InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages doesn’t seem to be available and I can’t find its equivalent.
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I know which languages the OS is available in from the MSDN documentation but I am looking for a way to retrieve this with code. InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages doesn’t seem to be available and I can’t find its equivalent.
I am not aware of any API in Windows Phone that returns a list of installed/available languages. I did find out that switching to an unsupported CultureInfo on the current thread Current(UI)Culture throws an exception.
So it is possible to test a couple of cultures (I wouldn’t test them all, but you could test for the languages you support) in an ugly way.
That said, I do think you should NOT (be able to) change the language in your program because it will confuse the user. The user will expect to change the language himself.