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Stan
Stan

Reputation: 746

Detecting home country of Windows Phone 7

Is there a way to programmatically find out what country a user's phone is from when my app is opened on their phone?

I have an app I'm developing that can use lbs/kg units and if someone's phone is from the United States, I want to enable lbs by default and if the phone is from anywhere else, I want to display kg by default. (note that I don't need think checking where they are connecting from would be accurate because it could be that they are travelling or using another country's proxy server).

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1907

Answers (4)

noggin182
noggin182

Reputation: 637

Why not just look at System.Globalization.RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.IsMetric?

There is an example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/system.globalization.regioninfo.ismetric(v=vs.105).aspx

Upvotes: 0

Brains
Brains

Reputation: 664

System.Globalization.RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.DisplayName;

Upvotes: 1

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 11041

You could also use the GPS to get their current position, then use the Bing API to get the country from the lat/long.

Using the GPS involves it's own headaches like adding a Privacy Policy, but from Stuart's answer, it seems like the most accurate way.

Upvotes: 2

Stuart
Stuart

Reputation: 66882

You can't get the country, but you should be able to guess it from:

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the travelling scenario - travelling Americans purchasing your app represents a very small percentage of your downloads.

Upvotes: 7

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