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.
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As you can see the fontsize is smaller in right image than fontsize in left side image
Please look at the android official document for typography
https://material.io/guidelines/style/typography.html#typography-typeface
Best practice to use fonts size as given by android like Title, sub title etc., which make better view for all the device sizes.
This is just a setting on android.
sp and dp revolves around that, so it might be that your newer device has a lower default setting.
On your emulator do the following.
go to settings --> display --> font size or display size.
This is nice, because if you code using sp/dp in your app, it will be able to change after what the user has as default settings.
Nothing you can do to really "resolve" it, as it is a user setting, but you can design your app so that it works with smallest and largest settings.
I'm developing and Android application that will support changes in the size of its text when the user changes it on settings.
For this reason I want to know if there's a way for me to separate my application resources according to the font size changes. For example, can I create an resource folder named like "drawable-huge" (the font size). If so do you know the suffixes I can use it on the folders? If that isn't possible, do you know any other thing I can do to prevent UI problems when the font sizes are bigger or smaller?
Thank you.
You can use something like this
textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 65);
which 65 is the font size in sp
for more information vist http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setTextSize%28int,%20float%29
What font is used by default, in the holo Android ActionBar?
I've only been able to find answers on how to change the font, but not what the default font is.
Thanks.
On API Level 14+, the default font face for everything is Roboto. On API Level 13 and below, the default font face for everything is Droid Sans.
Conceivably, that could be changed by device manufacturers, though.
If you don't set any font programmatically then it will consider your device's font settings and set that for your actionbar.
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.
When I use sp as my font size unit in the XML file, I go to spare parts and change font size, my app's font size is not changing. Does anyone know a way to resolve that?
The font size feature in Spare Parts is a holdover that doesn't have any effect on anything else.