[android] Text size and different android screen sizes

To unify all of the screens to show same element sizes including font size: - Design the UI on one screen size with whatever sizes you find appropriate during the design i.e. TextView font size is 14dp on default screen size with 4'6 inches.

  • Programmatically calculate the physical screen size of the other phones i.e. 5'2 inches of other phones/screens.

  • Use a formula to calculate the percentage difference between the 2 screens. i.e. what's the % difference between 4'6 and 5'2.

  • Calculate the pixel difference between the 2 TextViews based on the above formula.

  • Get the actual size (in pixels) of the TextView font-size and apply the pixels difference (you calculated earlier) to the default font-size.

With this way you can apply dynamic aspect ratio to all of screen sizes and the result is great. You'll have identical layout and sizes on each screen.

It can be a bit tricky at first but totally achieves the goal once you figure the formula out. With this method you don't need to make multiple layouts just to fit different screen sizes.