Right to Left

If you want your application to be Arabic or just Right to Left, do the following steps:

1. In the Common\LayoutAwarePageChange.xaml.cs add this line to Loaded event:

this.FlowDirection = Windows.UI.Xaml.FlowDirection.RightToLeft;

This line changes the flow direction in all pages since they all inherit from this page.

2. Change the back button arrow direction by applying the following changes in StandardStyles.xaml:

• Put the following instead of the first part of the file:

    <ResourceDictionary.ThemeDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary x:Key="Default">
            <x:String x:Key="BackButtonGlyph">&#xE0AA;</x:String>
            <x:String x:Key="BackButtonSnappedGlyph">&#xE0AC;</x:String>
        </ResourceDictionary>
        <ResourceDictionary x:Key="HighContrast">
            <x:String x:Key="BackButtonGlyph">&#xE0AA;</x:String>
            <x:String x:Key="BackButtonSnappedGlyph">&#xE0AC;</x:String>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </ResourceDictionary.ThemeDictionaries>

• Find: BackButtonStyle, and put  in the ArrowGlyph Text value.
• Find: SnappedBackButtonStyle, and put  in the ArrowGlyph Text value.