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I am currently doing some research on dpi and sp. What is the main difference between density-independent pixels (dp) and scale-independent pixels?

Candice Dick
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    Dupe of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2025282/what-is-the-difference-between-px-dip-dp-and-sp – Zoe Apr 20 '19 at 19:53
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    Possible duplicate of [What is the difference between "px", "dip", "dp" and "sp"?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2025282/what-is-the-difference-between-px-dip-dp-and-sp) – Nima Apr 20 '19 at 20:10
  • So technically to put into one's own words, dp is based on screen density (screen density is how many px appear within a fixed area of the screen) and sp is based on the user's configuration (font size) – Candice Dick Apr 20 '19 at 21:30

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1 DP (density-independent pixels) is 1 pixel on a 160 dpi screen.

SP (Scale-independent Pixels) - this resembles the dp unit, however it is likewise scaled by the user's text dimension setting.

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