What is the default text size on Android

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I have a mixture of Buttons and an own View  where I set my text size using Paint setTextSize    I want the text size to look the same like the text on the Button  Now  I can of course set the text size of the button to e g  18sp  and use 18 in my view  But for a better integration  I simply would like to know  what text size is  normal  for buttons  From my test  it should be something like 12sp  but I have not found any documentation on this   Leaving the default sizes leaves way too small text on the view   Maybe I should use still another approach to this issue

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This will return default size of text on button in pixels     Kotlin  val size   Button this  textSize     Java  float size   new Button this  getTextSize

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Looks like someone else found it  What are the default font characteristics in Android    There someone discovered the default text size  for TextViews  which use TextAppearance Small  it s 14sp

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Default values in appcompat-v7   lt dimen name  abc text size body 1 material  gt 14sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size body 2 material  gt 14sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size button material  gt 14sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size caption material  gt 12sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size display 1 material  gt 34sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size display 2 material  gt 45sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size display 3 material  gt 56sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size display 4 material  gt 112sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size headline material  gt 24sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size large material  gt 22sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size medium material  gt 18sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size menu material  gt 16sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size small material  gt 14sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size subhead material  gt 16sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size subtitle material toolbar  gt 16dp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size title material  gt 20sp lt  dimen gt   lt dimen name  abc text size title material toolbar  gt 20dp lt  dimen gt

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the default text size of the textview  if you not used any of the below   TextAppearance Small  TextAppearance Medium  TextAppearance Large  then the default size is 14sp

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http   petrnohejl github io Android-Cheatsheet-For-Graphic-Designers   Text size  Type    Dimension Micro   12 sp Small   14 sp Medium  18 sp Large   22 sp

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You can find standard sizes for everything in Google s style guide   Here are the values they use for for buttons   Buttons  English  Medium 14sp  all caps  Dense  Medium 15sp  all caps  Tall  Bold 15sp

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Default text  size vary from device to devices  Type    Dimension Micro   12 sp Small   14 sp Medium  18 sp Large   22 sp

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In general   Three  default  textSize values    - 14sp  - 18sp  - 22sp   These values are defined within the following TextAppearances    - TextAppearance Small  - TextAppearance Medium  - TextAppearance Large   More information about Typography can be found in the design guidelines  Related to your question   If you don t set a custom textSize or textAppearance  TextAppearance Small will be used     Update  Material design   New guidelines related to font and typefaces  The standard rule of 14sp remains  body    Examples how to set textappearances  AppCompat version      android textAppearance   style TextAppearance AppCompat Body    Lollipop and up version      android textAppearance   android style TextAppearance Material Body

[android] What is the default text size on Android?

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