Scalling font size in xamarin forms

Question

I am working with xamarin forms and facing problems with the layout. Now, with the fontsize.. I have two labels and one of them is Micro. I need that the other get the size of the Micro label / 2 as its size...I am reading about relative layout, but I don't know if it's the best way to do that...does someone have any idea to help me? This is my labels:

   <StackLayout Spacing="0">
        <Label x:Name="menu_lbl_promocoes" Text="0000" FontAttributes="Bold" TextColor="Black" HorizontalOptions="Center" Style="{Binding labelsfont}"/>
        <Label x:Name="menu_lbl_disponiveis" Text="Disponíveis" TextColor="Black" HorizontalOptions="Center" FontSize="Small" Style="{Binding labelsfont}"/>
   </StackLayout>

       </StackLayout> //yeah, there is another stacklayout 

       <Label Text="Promoções" FontSize="Micro" TextColor="White" HorizontalOptions="Center" Style="{Binding labelsfont}"/>

I need the second label get the half size of the third (which has a micro size)...

Micro is the smallest readable fontsize, doing the size of this in half you won't be able to read it properly, you sure you want it like that? — Jordy Dieltjens
the problem is: In my layout on ios the micro size is big kkkk The large is very big...then, the size that xamarin gives to me is not working well... — Joyce de Lanna

Sharada Gururaj Sharada Gururaj · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-24T15:03:52

Simply extend Label to have two bindable properties - FontSizeFactor and NamedFontSize - and have them calculate the font size for you:

public class MyLabel : Label
{
    public static readonly BindableProperty FontSizeFactorProperty =
        BindableProperty.Create(
        "FontSizeFactor", typeof(double), typeof(MyLabel),
        defaultValue: 1.0, propertyChanged: OnFontSizeFactorChanged);

    public double FontSizeFactor
    {
        get { return (double)GetValue(FontSizeFactorProperty); }
        set { SetValue(FontSizeFactorProperty, value); }
    }

    private static void OnFontSizeFactorChanged(BindableObject bindable, object oldValue, object newValue)
    {
        ((MyLabel)bindable).OnFontSizeChangedImpl();
    }

    public static readonly BindableProperty NamedFontSizeProperty =
        BindableProperty.Create(
        "NamedFontSize", typeof(NamedSize), typeof(MyLabel),
        defaultValue: NamedSize.Small, propertyChanged: OnNamedFontSizeChanged);

    public NamedSize NamedFontSize
    {
        get { return (NamedSize)GetValue(NamedFontSizeProperty); }
        set { SetValue(NamedFontSizeProperty, value); }
    }

    private static void OnNamedFontSizeChanged(BindableObject bindable, object oldValue, object newValue)
    {
        ((MyLabel)bindable).OnFontSizeChangedImpl();
    }

    protected virtual void OnFontSizeChangedImpl()
    {
        if (this.FontSizeFactor != 1)
            this.FontSize = (this.FontSizeFactor * Device.GetNamedSize(NamedFontSize, typeof(Label)));
    }
}

Sample Usage:

    <Label FontSize="Large" Text="Large Size" />
    <local:MyLabel NamedFontSize="Large" FontSizeFactor="0.9" Text="90% Large Size" />

    <Label FontSize="Medium" Text="Medium Size" />
    <local:MyLabel NamedFontSize="Medium" FontSizeFactor="0.75" Text="75% Medium Size" />

    <Label FontSize="Micro" Text="Micro Size" />
    <local:MyLabel NamedFontSize="Micro" FontSizeFactor="0.5" Text="50% Micro Size" />

Scalling font size in xamarin forms

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