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Soft keyboard with comma instead of dot for decimal separator in android.md

You can use the following workaround to also include comma as a valid input:-

Through XML:

<EditText
    android:inputType="number"
    android:digits="0123456789.," />

Programmatically:

EditText input = new EditText(THE_CONTEXT);
input.setKeyListener(DigitsKeyListener.getInstance("0123456789.,"));

In this way Android system will show the numbers' keyboard and allow the input of comma. Hope it helps :)

Font: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16772680/7482458

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Not tested

A variation on the 'digit' solutions offered here:

char separator = DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance().getDecimalSeparator();
input.setKeyListener(DigitsKeyListener.getInstance("0123456789" + separator));

Taking into account the locale separator.

Font: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34256139/7482458

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thank for sharing :+1

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