It seems that the new Percent Support Library was released without allowing to reference a Percentage value in a dimension xml file.
That is, instead of :
<android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<ImageView
app:layout_widthPercent="50%"
app:layout_heightPercent="50%"
app:layout_marginTopPercent="25%"
app:layout_marginLeftPercent="25%"/>
</android.support.percent.PercentFrameLayout/>
being able to code something like that :
<android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<ImageView
app:layout_widthPercent="@percent/myWidthPercent"
app:layout_heightPercent="@percent/my/HeightPercent"
app:layout_marginTopPercent="@percent/myMarginTophPercent"
app:layout_marginLeftPercent="@percent/myMarginLeftPercent"/>
where myWidthPercent is defined in a resource files.
Am i wrong (did i miss it with another name) or is it a feature request that we could send to google?
Use fraction instead of percent
<resources>
<fraction name="myWidthPercent">50%</fraction>
...
</resources>
And referencing to it
<ImageView
app:layout_widthPercent="@fraction/myWidthPercent"
app:layout_heightPercent="@fraction/my/HeightPercent"
app:layout_marginTopPercent="@fraction/myMarginTophPercent"
app:layout_marginLeftPercent="@fraction/myMarginLeftPercent"/>