Changing font size into an AlertDialog
android, android-alertdialog, font-size, textview
Solution
You can actually get access to the message's `TextView` pretty easily, and then change it's size. I tested with a bigger size, but you could use whatever size you want. The text will scroll nicely as it already does. The view's `id` is `android.R.id.message`
AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setMessage("Hello world").show();
TextView textView = (TextView) dialog.findViewById(android.R.id.message);
textView.setTextSize(40);
This is probably a cleaner solution, though I'm not sure if there's a risk that the `TextView` could be `null` or not.
Problem
I am trying to put some loooong text into an AlertDialog. The only issue the default font size that is really too big, so I want to make it smaller. Here are all the workaround I tried and their issues. Workaround 1) Using a TextView and myView.setTextSize(12); ``` final TextView myView = new TextView(getApplicationContext()); myView.setText(myLongText); myView.setTextSize(12); final AlertDialog d = new AlertDialog.Builder(context) .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, null) .setTitle(myTitle) .setView(myView) .create(); ``` Issues: Layout is not scrolling Workaround 2) making TextView scrollable. ``` message.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); ``` Issues: Layout is scrolling, bute there is no "inertia" (don't know how to call that.. But I guess you understand.) Workaround 3) Using a Scrollview. That's what I am going to try, but I cannot believe there are no easier solutions...