Android float/double resource type

Question

As I understood from available Android Resource types, there is no straight way to use float values as resources, unless you use some hacks such as the one mentioned in here

Answer 1

Add a float to dimens.xml:

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To reference from XML:

To read this value programmatically you can use ResourcesCompat.getFloat from androidx.core

Gradle dependency:

implementation("androidx.core:core:${version}")

Usage:

import androidx.core.content.res.ResourcesCompat;

...

float value = ResourcesCompat.getFloat(context.getResources(), R.dimen.my_dimen);