My app uses a custom View that does a lot of text drawing. To ensure my text is always readable I've been using the result of calling getTextSize() on a newly-created Paint() instance as the minimum size. Docs say calling 'new Paint()' sets attributes like text size to default values.
One of my European users just got a Motorola Milestone phone and reports that some text is unreadably small. I believe I've duplicated this using the WVGA854 skin in a 2.1 emulator. Run in that emulator my app's smallest TextViews look fine, but the text I'm drawing myself using Paint instances where I haven't changed the text size from the default is too small. I confirmed this by commenting out all setTextSize() calls in my View subclass: the text becomes too small to read comfortably. It feels like a bug to me that the default text size on Paint can be significantly smaller than default TextView size on some devices. Is it a known bug? In the meantime, can someone suggest a way to size Paint text so that it's readable on any device regardless of screen resolution? I believe there are APIs to translate inches to pixels, so perhaps I could hard-code a size in inches. Or I could measure the laid-out height of a TextView and store that as an invisible preference. But is there a better way, say an API I haven't found? (I suspect it'd be enough if Paint were like TextView in allowing you to specify the units in which text size is set, but it doesn't.) Thanks, --Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
