Changing text Size of menu item in android

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I am using simple menu items in action bar by using following code in main activity: ``` package com.kaasib.ftpclient; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem; import android.app.ActionBar; public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu); return true; } @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item){ boolean ret; if(item.getItemId() == R.id.connection_manager){ ret = true; }else{ ret = super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); } return ret; } } ``` Here is menu xml in main.xml: ``` <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/connection_manager" android:orderInCategory="100" android:showAsAction="collapseActionView" android:tit…

Accepted Answer

Ok, so this is my solution, you can actually use the SpannableString for fetching the text and then changing the font via RelativeSizeSpan (if you want text size relative to the default one) or via AbsoluteSizeSpan (if you want to manually input the text size):

```
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    MenuInflater awesome = getMenuInflater();
    awesome.inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    for(int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i++) {
        MenuItem item = menu.getItem(i);
    SpannableString spanString = new SpannableString(menu.getItem(i).getTitle().toString());
        int end = spanString.length();
    spanString.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(1.5f), 0, end, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    item.setTitle(spanString);
}
    return true;
}
```

This example increases the size of menu item texts by 50%.

Changing text Size of menu item in android

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