I am using the designer (the pre-designer era was even worse - hail Xamarin designer), but it kind of bugs me having to do every little thing, even when the only difference is the text size. Like I said, supporting three screen sizes plus a few more for portrait/landscape layouts, it's just a cumbersome and error prone task. I'm gonna try Steve's approach to at least simplify the text part, as some layouts are really simple.
Thanks to both. Cheers. -- Gonçalo Oliveira On 16 August 2012 18:28, Matthew Leibowitz <mattleibowm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using the Xamarin designer really helps. All you have to do is open the > base layout and then switch to the other sizes from the drop down. > If you have the various locks on, it keeps track of which settings are > changed on which screen size. It even asks you if you want to apply those > changes to the other screen sizes. > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Goncalo Oliveira <gonc...@minkan.net>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Monodroid mailing list >> Monodroid@lists.ximian.com >> >> UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Monodroid mailing list > Monodroid@lists.ximian.com > > UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid > >
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