I'm a C# programmer, not Android, so this may be idiotic to a real Android programmer; but... I have projects which all have 4 folders for Values that each contain a different Styles.xml file. Resources/Values-xlarge Resources/Values-large Resources/Values-normal Resources/Values-small Each Styles.xml has entries like... <style name="NormText">
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item> </style> <style name="NormBtn"> <item name="android:textSize">18sp</item> <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item> </style> This way I only need one Layout that references the style from the appropriate folder based on size. <Button android:id="@+id/startBtn" style="@style/NormBtn" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:text="Start Location Service" /> Steve Sharrock Architecture/Design/Programming www.sharkcode.com <blocked::http://www.sharkcode.com/> _____ From: monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Goncalo Oliveira Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:09 AM To: Discussions related to Mono for Android Subject: [mono-android] Screen sizes and layouts Hi there, The application I'm developing needs to support several different sizes, from Normal to Extra Large. I'm using sp for text size and dp for everything else, as recommended in android's best practices. The thing is... In many places the only thing that changes is the text size, and I really need to set a different size for each screen layout - unless I'm mistaken. This is kind of awful as I'll have to have layouts for every screen size, in some cases multiplied by orientation. So my question here is... isn't there some other way (easier one) for doing this? I've looked at the text appearance flags, like ?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium but they look completely different across sizes, so that isn't good enough either. I know this is not exactly Xamarin related, but Android, though... I'd appreciate some hints on "the best way" of doing this. Cheers -- Gonçalo Oliveira
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