Priyank Verma

A polyglot developer will understand, there is always something you like about one language and you wish was available for another language too.

So, recently I started learning rails and found number_helper API very cool and fun to use. It gives you easy API to convert numbers into many formats like number_to_human which will convert 20000 to 20 Thousands or number_to_human_size that will convert 1024 to 1 KB.

That was it I wanted this stuff for Android too. It just makes processing numbers to fit the UI needs so damn easy.

Here is my attempt to port this rails module to Android.

Here is the source code :

https://github.com/priyankvex/Rails-Number-Helper-For-Android

Usage : 

Just copy the module number_helper in your application folder and include module dependency.

Examples : 

        // Number to human converter
        NumberToHumanConverterBuilder builder2 = new NumberToHumanConverterBuilder(123456);
        NumberToHumanConverter converter2 = builder2.build();
        try {
            String humanNumber = converter2.convert();
            // OUTPUT : 123.456 Thousands
            Log.d(Config.TAG, humanNumber);
        } catch (InvalidSeparatorException | InvalidDelimiterException
                | InvalidPrecisionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Examples can be found here.
https://github.com/priyankvex/Rails-Number-Helper-For-Android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/wordpress/priyankvex/numberhelperdemo/MainActivity.java

Features : 

• Easy to use API.
• High utility for UI needs.
• Small in size.
• Custom exceptions to fit the needs of Android.