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shailbenq
shailbenq

Reputation: 1470

Internationalization of measuring units in Android

In my application, there are inputs like length, weight etc. Different countries follow different measurement guidelines, like in US its miles, gallons and UK is km, litres. So does android Locale support such conversions on locale changes or do we have to code it explicitly.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2123

Answers (2)

caroon
caroon

Reputation: 61

you could do something like this :

 if (locale.getCountry().equals("US")){
 // Code to compute weight based on USA format
 }

 else {
 // Code to compute weight based on metric system
 }

Other than US , Burma and Liberia have non-metric format

Upvotes: 2

devunwired
devunwired

Reputation: 63293

My wouldn't that be a useful feature! No I'm afraid all you can count on Locale for will be to assist you in formatting decimal numbers with the appropriate grouping characters. You will have to write the code to do the numeric conversions of your data and perhaps use the default Locale on the device to determine which units to display to the user.

Upvotes: 0

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