Add padding on view programmatically
view.setPadding(0,padding,0,0);
This will set the top padding to padding-pixels.
If you want to set it in dp instead, you can do a conversion:
float scale = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;int dpAsPixels = (int) (sizeInDp*scale + 0.5f);
To answer your second question:
view.setPadding(0,padding,0,0);like SpK and Jave suggested, will set the padding in pixels. You can set it in dp by calculating the dp value as follows:
int paddingDp = 25;float density = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().densityint paddingPixel = (int)(paddingDp * density);view.setPadding(0,paddingPixel,0,0);Hope that helps!
If you store the padding in resource files, you can simply call
int padding = getResources().getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.padding);It does the conversion for you.