How can I change font size in PreferenceScreen
Solution 1
Finally I was able to solve my problem simply by passing one layout. Maybe this will be helpful to someone. This is my modified preference.xml see below code. We can apply our own properties to pref title and summary.
preference.xml:
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<PreferenceCategory
android:title="First Category"
android:textSize="20px"
android:layout="@layout/mylayout">
<CheckBoxPreference
android:title="Checkbox Preference"
android:defaultValue="false"
android:summary="This preference can be true or false"
android:key="checkboxPref"
android:layout="@layout/mylayout"/>
</PreferenceCategory>
</PreferenceScreen>
mylayout.xml:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView android:id="@android:id/title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="40sp"/>
<TextView android:id="@android:id/summary"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="26sp"/>
</LinearLayout>
Please ask me if any queries....Keep Smiling. If this is useful give me one comment.
Solution 2
For me, the layout posted by praneetloke made the widget disappear from preferences that have an associated widget, e.g. a checkbox. There is a LinearLayout with id/widget_frame that is needed for the widget. The following worked for me, on Android 2.3 through 4.2.2. The only change that I needed to make was set android:visibility="gone" on the layout that contains the preference icon, which was not available in Gingerbread.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
android:paddingLeft="8dip"
android:paddingRight="?android:attr/scrollbarSize" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:minWidth="0dp"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:visibility="gone" >
<ImageView
android:id="@+android:id/icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:minWidth="48dp"
android:paddingRight="8dip" />
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:paddingBottom="6dip"
android:paddingRight="8dip"
android:paddingTop="6dip" >
<TextView
android:id="@+android:id/title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:fadingEdge="horizontal"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<TextView
android:id="@+android:id/summary"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@android:id/title"
android:layout_below="@android:id/title"
android:maxLines="4"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorSecondary" />
</RelativeLayout>
<!-- Preference should place its actual preference widget here. -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+android:id/widget_frame"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:minWidth="48dp"
android:orientation="vertical" />
</LinearLayout>
References: The default dimensions used in the layout are here GrepCode /res/values/dimens.xml. The actual preference item layout is here GrepCode /res/layout/preference_holo.xml. Note that there is also a non-holo version called preference.xml.
Solution 3
I modified Kumar's answer to this for ICS and above. I placed this layout in values-v11 to target devices API level 11+.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView android:id="@+android:id/title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="18dp"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimary"
android:paddingLeft="8dip"/>
<TextView android:id="@+android:id/summary"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="14dp"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorSecondary"
android:paddingLeft="8dip"/>
</LinearLayout>
Solution 4
You can actually take a look at the layout that is used in the specific platform in layout folder located in:
<android-sdk>\platforms\android-<level>\data\res\layout
Preferences layouts start with preference_ prefix.
Comments
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Anil Kumar over 4 years
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <PreferenceCategory android:title="First Category" android:textSize="20px"> <CheckBoxPreference android:title="Checkbox Preference" android:defaultValue="false" android:summary="This preference can be true or false" android:key="checkboxPref" /> </PreferenceCategory> </PreferenceScreen>
I need to change
android:title
font size ofPrefereceCategory
,CheckboxPreference
andandroid:summary
size. These tags don't have anyandroid:textSize
attribute. Can any one help me how to get this? -
degratnik over 12 yearsIt was useful for me. But how can I get system fonts and margins and colors for preference list items and add them to mylayout.xml?
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Dig Deeper almost 12 yearsMany thanks for the tips. I have one comment to improve your answer above. You should specify textSizes as "sp", or "dp", definetely not as "px". Using "dp" will make the font have the same physical size on all devices, "sp" is roughly like "dp", but the size will follow the device settings for global font sizes (e.g. large/medium/small size in Settings-Screen on Android 4). My opinion is that "sp" is the most appropriate here.
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1'' almost 11 yearsThis is the best answer. Amazing!
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Dory almost 11 yearsHow can I change the default blue drawables for the checkbox preference.
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Ankit Thakkar about 9 yearsWhen I have used above xml for preference, in below id @+android:id/summary @+android:id/title I am getting error in xml? can you help me on this?
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ToolmakerSteve about 9 years@AnkitThakkar: probably best if you create a new question, showing exactly what you did, and what the error is.
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Poly Bug over 8 yearsShouldn't the +'s before the ids be removed? We aren't creating new ids here, just using existing ones from android namespace, are we?
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Pogo Lin almost 8 yearsThanks, it works for me. I suggested that the unit of textsize should use sp not px.
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Samuel Agbede over 6 yearsFor some reason, the font sizes are not changing. Any idea why this might be?
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Gary Chen almost 4 yearsLet's keep smiling!
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UmAnusorn over 3 yearsandroid:textSize in PreferenceCategory not make any change for me