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Brad Wilder
3,541 PointsNecessary symbol not showing on number inputType
At my job my coworkers and I have to occasionally sort a group of 50-60 numbers in numerical order and this can be time consuming. To make things easier on us I made an app to sort a string of numbers, separated by commas, numerically. The problem I'm having is regardless of the inputType that is set some phones won't display the number layout with a comma. The AVD showed this while my S4 was showing this. Please note the S4 screenshot is for numberSigned but the - would change to blank or . depending on whether inputType is set to number or numberDecimal respectively. It would be easier on my users (coworkers) if I could get this to work with always showing a comma as that is how we have to display it at work so I would prefer not to allow the use of decimals as well. Hopefully this is explained well enough but if you need anymore information or clarification please feel free to ask and thanks for any help in advance.
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherThis is the bane of Android developers! You're running up against the variations on stock Android provided by the manufacturers.
The only way to truly guarantee a common keyboard experience across all devices would be to define your own keyboard layout. There is a long section on this in the developer docs. I found a tutorial about this that looks promising: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2497237
Also, you could check GitHub for custom keyboards and see if there is something you can modify, like this example Math keyboard.