Android Tutorial

By : Ketan Bhimani

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int myResourceColor

=getResources().getColor(R.color.prettyTextColor);

Working with Dimensions

Many user interface layout controls such as text controls and

buttons are drawn to specific dimensions. These dimensions can be

stored as resources. Dimension values always end with a unit of

measurement tag.

Dimension values are appropriately tagged with the <dimen> tag

and represent a name value pair. Dimension resources are defined

in XML under the /res/values project directory and compiled into

the application package at build time.

The dimension units supported are shown in Table.

Dimension Unit Measurements Supported

Here’s an example of a simple dimension resource file

/res/values/dimens.xml: