I am developing an Android Application and I would like to read the Font Size under Settings->Display->Font Size.
So if a user has set his Font Size to Small/Big/Huge, I would like to apply this automaticly to all my text
I am using a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Android 4.1.2
Thank you in advance for your help
Try reading FONT_SCALE from android.provider.Settings.System.
You can also define your text size using "sp" units which is the same like "dp" but scales according to the users system setting for text size. No need to read the font size from the system yourself.
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I've started using the font TT-Chocolates font in an Android app, but with font sizes < 16sp the font is being rendered uneven/inconsistently (e.g. TT-Chocolates-Regular 14sp, full resolution screenshot taken with android studio 1080x2400 Poco X3):
As you can see e.g. the "r" letters is drawn differently in two different textviews (list of elements with the exact same style and font size). In iOS, with the same size this problem does not occur.
Any thoughts? Thank you very much in advance!
We can make positioning of widgets 'responsive' by using bias/weight etc, but how do we make the font sizes responsive? By 'responsive' I mean the font size that changes according to size of device - i.e for large device the font size will be large, and for small device the font size will be small.
I tried using the library for ssp/sdp, but that didn't solve the issue.
Another suggested way is to create different font sizes in dimens.xml for different device size, and use them, but that would require calculating the different font sizes for the fonts used in the entire app.
Is there any other way?
you can use this library for font size :
implementation 'com.intuit.ssp:ssp-android:1.0.6'
Hello I am making an android application where I am giving text size is in sp as recommended.
I am setting my font size to 25sp to the TextView. Suppose here if user pick "Large" font of the device from the settings of the device and later update it to "Normal" then my application font also vary according to that.
But Is there any calculation such that I can calculate what would be size of font if it is "Large" and "Normal" ?
Screenshot of the device font settings
Sure, you can get view dimensions, but you do not really need to care in most cases. If you set size in sp then it means you are aware what that unit means and you expect this behaviour. If you do not like fonts size being changed, simply use dp
I'm working on a Android project where I need to build my layouts based on a JSON layout file. This same file is also being used on an iOS app. So there is 1 file which will render the same layout on the Android as well as on the iOS.
The JSON layout file defines its font sizes based on the default iOS font unit.
From the Android docs:
Points - 1/72 of an inch based on the physical size of the screen.
And as far as I can find, iOS font sizes are also defined as 1/72 of an inch.
So based on this info, I'd say the following should be enough:
view.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PT, fontSizeInIosUnit)
This however results in the text being too large. And it also seems to differ per device (which is weird since points should always appear in the same physical size).
If you want fonts to resize properly according to screen size you should use dp/dip instead.
So try this instead:
view.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, fontSizeInIosUnit);
Now this might not be exacly the same but in my experience this gives the best results. If it doesn't have the proper size then figure out what size you need on Android as the base size and then go with that instead.
Can anyone please tell me where exactly the Default Text Font size is set in the android framework.When I change the font size using Spare Parts package and reboot my android device, the font size sets to Normal style by default.But I want it to be Extremely Large by default.
Thanks,
Riyaz
If you just want to set font size for the whole phone. Try going to
Settings (Phone) > Accessibility.
Choose Large Text there.
NOTE: I am assuming you just want the font for the phone and not via an app.
You can't change a default font size. You can define a theme, and define a font size in your theme. You can read about defining themes and styles in the android developer reference documentation.
You can change font size, style etc in your application, but not for whole device. To do that i guess you need to root your phone and provide custom fonts with specified font size in it.
For andriod 2.3.5 go to SMS click on Menu-> Settings scroll down until you see Font Setting and select Font Size Setting
According to http://recombu.com/mobile/article/changing-font-size_M18292.html there is no native option for that, up to Android 3.0.
You have to install some third party app. "Big Font" appears to be a popular one.