java - Acquiring a country's currency code

Question

I have a problem getting a country's currency code. My task is to get the user's location, find out what country he is right now and get this country's currency code. Here's the code that fetches the country name and country code from the acquired location:

Geocoder gc = new Geocoder(this);
List<Address> addresses = gc.getFromLocation(
                location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude(), 5);

textView1.setText(addresses.get(0).getCountryName());
textView2.setText(addresses.get(0).getCountryCode());

This works perfectly fine. Now I should use the java.util.Currency class to get a Currency object. I can use the Currency.getInstance(Locale locale) method. But there's no constructor in the Locale class that allows only the country code to be passed as an argument. Means I am not able to create a Locale object for the country. How can this be solved? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You should be able to use Currency.getInstance(new Locale("",code)), with a possible Exception if the country code isn't valid.