In my layout XML files, I reference a lot of parameters through a separate files called dimens.xml.
For example, dimens.xml contains parameters like these:
<dimen name="textSize_normal">20dp</dimen>
<dimen name="buttonTextSize_normal">15dp</dimen>
<dimen name="editTextSize_normal">17dp</dimen>
<dimen name="buttonHeight_normal">37dp</dimen>
<dimen name="margin_normal">5dp</dimen>
And in my main.xml, for example, I would set the text size for a TextView by doing something like this:
android:textSize="@dimen/editTextSize_normal"
It works great.
Now, my questions is, is it possible to set the values for the dimen variables in my dimen.xml file programmatically from my main activity? What I am trying to do is fetch the screen size, and set, for example, the textSize based on a fraction of the height of the screen so that it is easily adaptable to any screen size. I have all that figured out, I just need your help to figure out how to set the dimen variables in my code.