Arabic number in Arabic text in Android
Set your TypeFace as per below for Arabic
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/abcd.TTF");
abcd is Arabic font.
textview.setTypeface(font);
There's such issue in Google's bugtracker: Arabic numerals in arabic language intead of Hindu-Arabic numeral system
If particularly Egypt locale doesn't work due to some customer's issue(I can understand it), then you can format your string to any other western locales. For example:
NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance(new Locale("en","US")); //or "nb","No" - for Norway
String sDistance = nf.format(distance);
distanceTextView.setText(String.format(getString(R.string.distance), sDistance));
If solution with new Locale
doesn't work at all, there's an ugly workaround:
public String replaceArabicNumbers(String original) {
return original.replaceAll("١","1")
.replaceAll("٢","2")
.replaceAll("٣","3")
.....;
}
(and variations around it with Unicodes matching (U+0661,U+0662,...). See more similar ideas here)
Upd1: To avoid calling formatting strings one by one everywhere, I'd suggest to create a tiny Tool method:
public final class Tools {
static NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getInstance(new Locale("en","US"));
public static String getString(Resources resources, int stringId, Object... formatArgs) {
if (formatArgs == null || formatArgs.length == 0) {
return resources.getString(stringId, formatArgs);
}
Object[] formattedArgs = new Object[formatArgs.length];
for (int i = 0; i < formatArgs.length; i++) {
formattedArgs[i] = (formatArgs[i] instanceof Number) ?
numberFormat.format(formatArgs[i]) :
formatArgs[i];
}
return resources.getString(stringId, formattedArgs);
}
}
....
distanceText.setText(Tools.getString(getResources(), R.string.distance, 24));
Or to override the default TextView
and handle it in setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type)
public class TextViewWithArabicDigits extends TextView {
public TextViewWithArabicDigits(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public TextViewWithArabicDigits(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
@Override
public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
super.setText(replaceArabicNumbers(text), type);
}
private String replaceArabicNumbers(CharSequence original) {
if (original != null) {
return original.toString().replaceAll("١","1")
.replaceAll("٢","2")
.replaceAll("٣","3")
....;
}
return null;
}
}
I hope, it helps
There is an easy way. Taking your integer number and format it to string, and it will apply localization implicitly to numbers by this method:
String YourNumberString = String.format("%d", YourNumberInteger);
So 123 will become ١٢٣ and so on.
For more information see section "Format numbers" at: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/supporting-devices/languages