Question

I’m trying to get all edit text views to be the same size without using a hard definition like px or dp, but rather to use a wrap_content and get them all to be the same size. This is what I have, but it doesn’t work:

    enterAge = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.enterAge);
    enterAge.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher1());

    enterWeight = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.enterWeight);
    enterWeight.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher2());
    enterWeight.setWidth(enterAge.getWidth());

    enterHeight = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.enterHeight);
    enterHeight.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher3());
    enterHeight.setWidth(enterAge.getWidth());

    enterMealFrequency = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.enterMealFrequency);
    enterMealFrequency.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher4());
    enterMealFrequency.setWidth(enterAge.getWidth());

Any suggestions on why this isn’t working the way I want it to?

Answer 1

I have solved similar problem introducing my own class which extends EditText, e.g.

public class SimpleEditText extends EditText
{
    private static float textSize=14.0;

    public SimpleEditText(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
        this.setTextSize(textSize);
    }

    public SimpleEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
        this.setTextSize(textSize);
    }

    public SimpleEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        this.setTextSize(textSize);
    }
}

In resource you can directly use reference to SimpleEditText instead of EditText (for sure one have to keep in mind that all size related XML attributes will be ignored…)