Can I scale a View in Android?

Question

Can I take a view that has been rendered by the Android framework and rescale it to some other size?

Answer 1

You need API 11 or above to scale a view. Here is how:

float scalingFactor = 0.5f; // scale down to half the size view.setScaleX(scalingFactor); view.setScaleY(scalingFactor); 

Answer 2

In your XML

android:scaleX="0.5" android:scaleY="0.5"