text-size

If I assign an integer value to change a certain text size of a TextView using java code, the value is interpreted as pixel ( px ). Now does anyone know how to assign it in sp ? Santosh http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setTextSize%28int,%20float%29 Example: textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 65); You can use a DisplayMetrics object to help convert between pixels and scaled pixels with the scaledDensity attribute . DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics(); getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm); pixelSize = (int)scaledPixelSize *

So I use Paint's measureText() method to measure the width of a segment of text, but I wanted to measure text based on a certain text size. Say I wanted to get the width of a text segment that will be 20 scaled pixels when it occupies a certain TextView. I tried the following: Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setTextSize(20); paint.measureText("sample text"); However, it does not seem to be working. I believe it is returning a width with respect to a smaller text size. I feel like I'm missing something that will make me slap myself in the face and yell herp derp. You need to get the

I have difficulties changing the text size of the tabs of design library tablayout (android.support.design.widget.TabLayout). I managed to change it by assigning tabTextAppearance in TabLayout app:tabTextAppearance="@style/MyTabLayoutTextAppearance" the following style <style name="MyTabLayoutTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title.Inverse"> <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item> </style> but I have 2 side effects : 1) I lost the accent color of the selected tab 2) The tab text is not capitalized any more. hnrain <style name="MineCustomTabText" parent=

I want to change the size of text in Toolbar . Because in my application, Toolbar text has different sizes both for landscape and portrait mode. Is it possible to change the text size of text in Toolbar ? Use app:titleTextAppearance : <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="?actionBarSize" android:id="@+id/toolbar" app:titleTextAppearance="@style/Toolbar.TitleText" /> and override the default title size in a custom style: <style

There is an ActionBar on each Android 4.0 application, and it got a title. I need to make this size less. But I don't understand how I can do it, because ActionBar doesn't provide public methods for it. Remark: I don't want to use custom views. Actually, you can do what you want to customize the ActionBar. It must be done through the Theme. You can do something like this : <style name="Theme.YourTheme" parent="android:style/Theme"> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar</item> </style> <style name="Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar"> <item name="android