Using locale settings to detect wheter to use imperial units

Question

I\'m working on an app that wants to display lengths either in centimeters (cm) or in inches(\"). Is there a way to select the right unit from the locale? In any event I\'m also

Answer 1

Building on the other nice solutions here, you can also implement this as a Kotlin extension function to the Locale object:

fun Locale.isMetric(): Boolean {
    return when (country.toUpperCase(this)) {
        "US", "LR", "MM" -> false
        else -> true
    }
}

This way, all you need to do is call:

val metric = Locale.getDefault().isMetric()