Adding locale aware thousands separator dynamically as the user types

Oct 04, 2021 1 min read

Locale aware, dynamic thousands separator for EditText

Adding locale aware thousands separator dynamically as the user types

Features:

Add thousands separator dynamically as the user types
Enable editing in between the string and not only at the ends
Style of thousands separation is based upon the locale (eg: 100,000 vs 1,00,000)
Symbol of thousands separator and decimal marker is based on the locale (eg: 100,000.00 vs 100.000,00)
Supports all languages and locales

Disadvantages:

Does not support copy/paste operations
In right-to-left languages (eg. Arabic), the cursor jumps to the end on deleting the first number

Note:

If you are programmatically setting text, always set formatted text returned by getCurrencyFormattedAmountValue()

GitHub

https://github.com/abhilashd-locus/edittext-locale-aware-thousands-separator