Override Android's Gmail app minimum font-size (Newsletter)

Question

I am creating a newsletter and after a lot of effort it works everywhere except android's gmail app. The problem is that it seems it has a minimum font size and that cause my table to break.

Is there a way to overcome the minimum font-size not with media queries cause most likely it will get stripped.

In iphone's Mail app for instance, to overcome the minimum font-size I use -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; Is there something similar?

Thanks

Answer 1

did you check this thread? https://www.campaignmonitor.com/forums/topic/7801/gmail-app-android-text-size/ as it's said there:

You need to add min-width to a container table (one that wraps all your other tables, NOT your 100% container) then you should see most, if not all auto fit issues dissapear since most auto-fit issues are related in some way to the device independent pixel (DIP) width.

Answer 2

The issue isn't an auto-fit issue. It's true that the min-width fix will make your layout arrange correctly, but I'm pretty sure the issue with the text is a combination of the GMail app not respecting webkit-font-size-adjust, stripping any viewport tags, moving any <13px font up to 13px. I've tried a lot of things for this in the past :( i've been reduced to making images out of small text / nesting tables as a container to account for more text space than every other client.

Tested in Litmus and GMail on Android 4.3