When you have a UI design with a specific dimension, and you need to support different mobiles or tablets in portrait or landscape. This case Xdimen can help you to generate scalable dimesions for common devices' screen sizes.
Xdimen generates an alternative res directory for every common screen width (configurable) and scales your design dimensions.
Xml resources are generated with help of kotlin xml builder
Find more about Xdimen here
Xdimen must be applied in an android project.
plugins {
id 'io.github.islamkhsh.xdimen' version "$latest_version"
// agp plugin
}
plugins {
id("io.github.islamkhsh.xdimen") version "$latest_version"
// agp plugin
}
All properties are optional, only designWidth
is required. Properties are discussed in more detail in below section.
xdimen {
deleteOldXdimen = true
designWidth = 411 // required
designDpi = mdpi()
targetDevicesWidth = [360, 375, 411]
dimensRange {
minDimen = -10
maxDimen = 600
step = 0.5d
}
fontsRange {
minDimen = 10
maxDimen = 60
step = 1.0d
}
}
xdimen {
deleteOldXdimen.set(true)
designWidth.set(411) // required
designDpi.set(mdpi())
targetDevicesWidth.set(phonePortrait)
dimensRange {
minDimen.set(-10)
maxDimen.set(500)
step.set(0.5)
}
fontsRange {
minDimen.set(10)
maxDimen.set(60)
step.set(1.0)
}
}
After generate xdimen resources (see next section) you can use the dimens
<TextView android:layout_width="@dimen/x100dp" # width in design is 100dp
android:layout_height="@dimen/x50_5dp" # height in design is 50.5dp
android:padding="@dimen/neg_x6_5dp" # padding in design is -6.5dp
android:textSize="@dimen/x12sp" # textSize in design is 12sp
/>
To execute a task, make sure you execute it on an android project using one of these ways
$ gradle :prjectName:taskName
.android
group.Run AnyThing
window.generateXdimen
Generates alternative resources for every device width in targetDevicesWidth
set and for every created resource
qualifier it scales the dimensions to fit with this width. It uses configured properties to calculate a scaling factor,
get the range of dimensions to generate and the list of screen widths' to target.
deleteXdimen
Delete the previous generated xdimen resources unless you renamed the res file or dir. It will be executed
before generateXdimen
if you set deleteOldXdimen
property by true.
By setting it when you execute generateXdimen
task deleteXdimen
will be executed first to delete all previous
generated xdimen resources and their dirs if the directory contains only xdimen.xml
file.
If you renamed the
xdimen.xml
file or its directory for any reason, this file won't be deleted.
Default value: true.
The value of screen width of your design in dp
unit. It will be used with designDpi
to calculate the
relativeDesignWidth (width relative to main density mdpi
) and then calculate a scaling factor for every screen width
in targetDevicesWidth
.
If your design is in
px
set its width in this property and setdesignDpi
to bemdpi
as in mdpi 1px = 1dp.
No default value because it's required and must be configured.
The design screen density (dot per inch) see more. This will be used with designWidth
to calculate the relativeDesignWidth.
Default value is: mdpi
Predefined densities: for every density in common densities there's a method with its name (
ldpi()
,mdpi()
,hdpi()
, ... etc), Also there's a method to set custom densitydpi(value)
.
The width of screens of devices which you target. For every width in this list, an alternative resource will be generated with scaled dimensions.
ex: if the list is [350, 400] then
...
-> values/xdimen.xml # Devices with screen-width less than 350dp.
-> values-w350dp/xdimen.xml # 350dp <= screen-width < 400dp
-> values-w400dp/xdimen.xml # screen-width >= 400dp
...
You can use a predefined set as it's, adds or removes from it, or provide your own set.
Default value is: [designWidth] set of designWidth provided value.
Predefined sets for common devices:
phonePortrait
: common phones in portrait orientation.phoneLandscape
: common phones in landscape orientation.tabletPortrait
: common tablets in portrait orientation.tabletLandscape
: common tablets in landscape orientation.
devicesInPortrait
: common phones and tablets in portrait.devicesInLandscape
: common phones and tablets in landscape.You can combine multiple devices list, but I recommend not to target both portrait and landscape unless you provide a custom layout for landscape or using Pane Layout.
These lists were collected from many sources: Wikipedia, ScreenSize, Pixensity and others.
The range of dimensions you want to be generated and scaled.
minDimen
: the minimum dimen to be generated.maxDimen
: the maximum dimen to be generated.step
: the step between two generated dimen.Default value: minDimen=-10, maxDimen=600, step=1.00.
The same of dimensRange
but for fonts dimensions range.
Default value: minDimen=6, maxDimen=48, step=1.00.