Why might Resources.getString() intermittently return strings from the wrong locale?

Question

I have an Android application with English strings in values/strings.xml. For each string in that file, I have an entry in values-ja/strings.xml with the Japanese translation of

Answer 1

I faced the same issue.

For me, I was trying to get the string (in the onCreate()) before importing language settings from shared preferences (done in the onResume()).