How do I store a floating point number in Android resource file

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I am using font size percentage 0.96f which is floating point. On different devices I might want higher font size percent. How do I store this as a resource? I suppose I could store as 95 and divide by 100 but anyway how do you store floating point numbers in resource file which might give different value depending on device resolution/size etc. just like for layout files. If you are curious about the percent its because I am reducing the size of the font by 4% to fit a TextView onto my view. Soon there will be in Android O a new TextView to do the scaling but not now.

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try this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29984969/android-float-double-resource-type — Prasanth S, Jun 06 '17 at 05:46
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29984969/android-float-double-resource-type try this — Vidhi Dave, Jun 06 '17 at 05:47
If we stipulate that integer might be the way to go here and store it at 94 I would still like to know how to get back different integer based on device resolution from resource. — gitsensible, Jun 06 '17 at 05:48
Possible duplicate of [Android float/double resource type](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29984969/android-float-double-resource-type) — Vidhi Dave, Jun 06 '17 at 05:48
Ok, so would I create multiple dimension.xml files? where do these go exactly to give me different values based on device size? — gitsensible, Jun 06 '17 at 05:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '17 at 07:15

To get different integer based on device resolution from resource, you have to add Different values folder for different screens in res directory. For ex: - values - values-small - values-large - values-sw600dp

Add dimens.xml in every values folder and add dimensions according to resolution.

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How do I store a floating point number in Android resource file

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