Currency
Android currency conversion. The app is available on F-Droid and here.
Extra currencies
For extra currencies please see my
Specie app with 150
currencies.
More ~currencies~, ~crypto-currencies~ and lots of other conversions
are in Equate.
- Currency rates from the European Central Bank
- 32 international currencies
- Currency rates updated daily
- Last rate update retained for use offline
- Extra currency for unsupported currencies
- Ukrainian, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Indonesian, Russian
and Norwegian translation
- App widget to display selected currency
Usage
Edit
Touch the current currency value field to edit the value. The display
will be updated dynamically as you type. Touch the Done button on
the numeric keypad to update the value field. The whole value field
is selected by default when touched so it will be overwritten by
typing in a new value. To deselect the text, touch an adjacent area,
like the currency flag.
Toolbar
The icons in the toolbar from left to right are:
- Add a currency to the list. A scrollable list of currencies will
pop up. Touch an entry to add it or touch the Cancel button
below the list. Long touch an entry to select it. Once one currency
is selected others may be added or removed from the selection by
touching them. Another long touch on another currency will clear
the list and select the new currency. Touch the Clear button to
clear the selection. Touch the Select button to add the
selection. The entries will be added to the list in the order
selected.
- Refresh Get the day's currency rates from the
ECB. The
date shown on the left above the currency list will be updated if
new rates are available. It may show the previous day because the
rates are updated at around 14:15 CET. The status display on the
right above the currency list will show 'OK', 'No Connection', 'No
WiFi' or 'Roaming' according to the update settings. It may show
'Failed' if the connection times out or fails to connect.
- Update Update the currency rate for the extra currency against
the Euro. A dialog will pop up with the current extra currency
rate. Update the value and touch the OK button. The display will
refresh if the extra currency is displayed.
Edit currency list
Touch a currency entry in the list to make it current. The old current
currency will move to the top of the list. Long touch a currency entry
to select it. Once one currency is selected others may be added or
removed from the selection by touching them. Another long touch on
another currency will clear the list and select the new currency. The
icons in the toolbar will change to:
- Clear the selection.
- Remove the selected currencies.
- Chart Display a chart of selected currencies. If one is
selected, the chart will be of the current currency and the selected
currency. If more than one currency is selected the chart will be of
the last two selected currencies. Selecting the extra currency will
produce a blank chart.
- Copy selection value to clipboard. Only one value will be copied.
Widget
On creating a widget a selection dialog will pop up showing the
current currencies. Select the currency to display. This overrides the
Widget entry setting. Touch the configure icon in the top right of
the widget to change the currency. Touch the refresh icon to refresh
the widget with new data if available.
Chart
The display shows an interactive chart of the last 90 days of
historical rates from the
ECB. The
chart responds to two finger pinch and expand gestures and will scroll
once expanded. The toolbar icons from left to right are:
- Invert the chart.
- New chart The scrollable list of currencies will pop up. Select
one or two currencies from the list as above to replace the current
currencies in the chart.
- Refresh the chart.
- Historical The chart will be updated with nearly eighteen years
of historical data currently dating from 1 January 1999. Not all the
currencies go back this far. Caution - this will take a while,
depending on the connection, and will download more than 6Mb of
data.
- Range Change the chart range. The chart will show the latest
data, but will scroll back. Note - ranges greater than a quarter
will have no effect unless the chart is updated with the historical
data.
- Week One week
- Month One month
- Quarter Three months
- Year One year
- 5 Years 5 Years
- Max Maximum current range
Settings
Update
- WiFi Update while connected on WiFi only
- Roaming Update while roaming
Widget
- Widget entry Select the currency entry to display in the
widget. Defaults to the first. This is overridden by the widget
configuration dialog.
Numbers
- Fraction digits Select the number of digits to display after the
decimal point. A popup list of options will be displayed.
Chart
- Fill Fill the chart trace.
Theme
About
- About Display the version, copyright and licence.