I have an app that prints a calculated money value and I want to display that value with the default currency format.
For example in Europe you would write:
1.000,95€
In the US I think you would write
1,000.95$
In other currencies there are more or less values displayed for the decimal fraction, in US it would be 2 but in Japan it would be 0.
How can I obtain a exact as possible format for all existing currencies?
I found the solution. THe class NumberFormat has a multitude of predefined formatters. There is also one for formatting currency Values.
If you use the static method getCurrencyInstance the class will return a formatter for the device default currency. I use the following code to set my result:
NumberFormat format = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_result)).setText(format.format(result));
For sake of completeness suppose you want to display a price in phone's current locale (correct decimal mark and thousand separator) but with a currency of your choice.
NumberFormat format = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.getDefault());
format.setCurrency(Currency.getInstance("CZK"));
String result = format.format(1234567.89);
result
would then hold these values:
CZK1,234,567.89
with US locale
1 234 567,89 Kč
with Czech locale
If you'd like to omit the decimal part for prices (show $199
instead of $199.00
) call this before using the formatter:
format.setMinimumFractionDigits(0);
All options are listed in NumberFormat
docs.
Check out DecimalFormat
.
It has a variety of features designed to make it possible to parse and
format numbers in any locale, including support for Western, Arabic,
or Indic digits. It also supports different flavors of numbers,
including integers ("123"), fixed-point numbers ("123.4"), scientific
notation ("1.23E4"), percentages ("12%"), and currency amounts
("$123"). All of these flavors can be easily localized.
to get device locale you could use this:
@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.N)
public static Locale getCurrentLocale(Context c) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
return c.getResources().getConfiguration().getLocales().get(0);
} else {
//noinspection deprecation
return c.getResources().getConfiguration().locale;
}
and then to do format:
double num = 1323.526;
NumberFormat defaultFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(getCurrentLocale(getContext()));
defaultFormat.format(num)