Android Question Font Size for App ignoring Android settings?

adriano.freitas

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Hi!

Is there a way to set a font size for general use in the app, including message boxes, etc? I ask because much of the layout I made is impaired when the user in Android settings sets a large font size for Android. I wanted a way to, at least in the app, ignore this font size setting and use the one I set.

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Marvel

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Get the font scale of the device and divide all the font sizes of all your views by the font scale
 
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Erel

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In most cases it is a bad idea to ignore the user setting.

Check this code:

Get size of system-font in use

The other day I received a report (along with screenshots) from a user saying that certain labels on his Galaxy S3 were truncated or simply did not show up correctly. I found this rather odd since my developer-phone is also a Galaxy S3 and of course I had made sure that everything (my layouts)...
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You can pass CSBuilder to the various dialogs and set the font size.
 
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