android edit text making the text larger

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Edmund Rojas picture Edmund Rojas · Mar 15, 2012 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

When a user types into my edittext the text is a bit small, Id like to make this larger maybe 20-25 sp what is the best way of doing this?

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Sparky picture Sparky · Mar 15, 2012

I'm a big fan of starting out with system-defined values. You can always tweak things later.

 <TextView style="@android:style/TextAppearance.Large" ...

Probably better in the long run to define yourself a family of styles in res/values, rather than the one-shot that I'm showing here.

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