Scale-independent Pixels

[peacemaker]

No support, Erel ?

It's again about font-size, that is needed to be bigger for bigger screens, not density.

 

[Erel]

Why not supported?

Font size is always measured in scale independent pixels.

 

[nfordbscndrd]

Since he says "bigger screen, not density", I think that what he may be getting at is that the same font size on a 10" tablet that is 1280x800x1 looks much smaller than on a 7" tablet that is 800x480x1. Android doesn't scale up the font size because both tablets have the same scale, even though the dimensions are different.

The Wiki has screen shots which show this effect.

 

[peacemaker]

Since he says "bigger screen, not density"
...
font size on a 10" tablet that is 1280x800x1 looks much smaller than on a 7" tablet that is 800x480x1. Android doesn't scale up the font size because both tablets have the same scale

Yes, exactly, i think
1) most users need the bigger screen - the bigger (well visible) text.
2) at smaller resolution layouts the texts must suit the smaller view dimensions.

How to adjust font sizes for various layouts for it ?

 

[Erel]

If you like you can use something like:

EditText1.TextSize = ScaleTextSize(14)

Sub ScaleTextSize(Size As Float)
 Return Size / 480 * 100%y / 1dip
End Sub

 

[peacemaker]

Thanks you, Erel, will try.
But, seems, all the questions due to the designer (or Android layouts natively?) cannot store separated font size digits for any view of each layout.

 

[Erel]

This will be possible in the next version: Screenshots of the upcoming "designer scripts" feature