scaling - Android and setting width and height programmatically in dp units

Question

I'm doing:

button.setLayoutParams(new GridView.LayoutParams(65, 65));

According to the docs the units for the width and height (both 65 in the above) are "pixels". How do you force this to be device independent pixels, or "dp"?

Answer 1

You'll have to convert it from dps to pixels using the display scale factor.

final float scale = getContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
int pixels = (int) (dps * scale + 0.5f);