Changing windows phone app localization at runtime via bindings!

App.cs

public class App : Application
{
    // ... bla bla
    
    // when app is launching, we should set its language to previous saved or best for user's system language or default for application
    private void Application_Launching(object sender, LaunchingEventArgs e)
    {
        LocalizationManager.ChangeAppLanguage(LocalizationManager.GetCurrentAppLang());
    }
}

LocalizationManager.cs

/// <summary>
/// Handles localization switching in the app
/// </summary>
public static class LocalizationManager
{
    public class LocalizationChangedEventArgs : EventArgs
    {
        public string NewLocalization { get; private set; }

        public LocalizationChangedEventArgs(string newLocalization)
        {
            NewLocalization = newLocalization;
        }
    }

    public static event EventHandler<LocalizationChangedEventArgs> LocalizationChanged;

    public static class SupportedLanguages
    {
        public const string En = "en";
        public const string Ru = "ru";

        public static readonly string[] All =
        {
            En,
            Ru
        };
    }

    private static readonly object LocalizationManagerLock = new object();

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets current language on device
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string GetCurrentAppLang()
    {
        lock (LocalizationManagerLock)
        {
            // please implement this part as you want, here you can see, that we just getting previous saved language from IsolatedStorageSettings via our helper
            var savedAppLang = IsolatedStorageSettingsManager.Get(IsolatedStorageSettingsKeys.AppLang) as string;
            if (savedAppLang != null) return savedAppLang;

            var currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName;

            // returning language from current UI culture only if it is supported by our app, otherwise reutrning EN as default
            foreach (var lang in SupportedLanguages.All.Where(lang => lang == currentCulture)) return lang;

            return SupportedLanguages.En;
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Changes current app language, updates all views and saves current language
    /// if language is not supported, it will not switch to it
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="lang">Use values from SupportedLanguages class</param>
    public static void ChangeAppLanguage(string lang)
    {
        lock (LocalizationManagerLock)
        {
            // Can not switch to not supported language
            if (!SupportedLanguages.All.Contains(lang)) return;

            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(lang);
            LocalizedStrings.LocalizedStringsResource.UpdateLanguage();
            IsolatedStorageSettingsManager.Put(IsolatedStorageSettingsKeys.AppLang, lang); // saving new language in IsolatedStorageSettings

            // notifying binded views about language change, so they will reload resources automatically
            NotifyLocalizationChanged(lang);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Resets current App language to the system language
    /// </summary>
    public static void ResetAppLanguageToTheSystemLanguage()
    {
        ChangeAppLanguage(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName);
    }

    private static void NotifyLocalizationChanged(string newLocalization)
    {
        var localizationChanged = LocalizationChanged;

        if (localizationChanged != null)
        {
            LocalizationChanged(null, new LocalizationChangedEventArgs(newLocalization));
        }
    }
}

LocalizedStrings.cs

public class LocalizedStrings : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    /// We need to provide ability to change app language at runtime
    /// So we need to notify views which had binded string resource about change 
    /// </summary>
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    private static AppResources _localizedResources = new AppResources();

    public AppResources LocalizedResources
    {
        get { return _localizedResources; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Call this method using LocalizedStrings.LocalizedStringsResource.UpdateLanguage()
    /// When you had switched current ui language for the application and want to notify your views about that 
    /// </summary>
    public void UpdateLanguage()
    {
        // To prevent NPE, if another thread modify event handler after check
        var handler = PropertyChanged;
        if (handler != null) handler(LocalizedResources, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(null));
    }

    public static LocalizedStrings LocalizedStringsResource
    {
        get
        {
            return Application.Current.Resources["LocalizedStrings"] as LocalizedStrings;
        }
    }
}

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