What should I use for margins, sp or dp?

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I have seen some people using sp for margins like:

android:layout_marginLeft="40sp"

While many have been using dp, like:

android:layout_marginLeft="40dp"

Could anyone please confirm which is better between these two and which should be used when? Any help would be highly appreciated.

`Sp` is used for text's size in textview and editext..etc while `dp` is used for `view`'s size. — Shvet, May 30 '15 at 06:37
For margins it will be `dp` too. i mean `sp` is used only for textsizes. — Shvet, May 30 '15 at 06:42
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html — SID --- Choke_de_Code, May 30 '15 at 08:31
possible duplicate of [Difference between px, dp, dip and sp in Android?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2025282/difference-between-px-dp-dip-and-sp-in-android) — SID --- Choke_de_Code, May 30 '15 at 08:34

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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sp for font sizes, dp for everything else. sp stands for Scale-independent Pixels, dp stands for dip=density independent pixels. Detailed explanation

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered May 30 '15 at 07:38

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Thank you for the precise explanation. – user1903022 May 30 '15 at 07:43

What should I use for margins, sp or dp?

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