// Want to set padding as 16 dips, setPadding takes pixels. Hooray math!
int paddingDips = 16;
double scale = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
int paddingPixels = (int) ((paddingDips * (scale)) + .5);
mLogView.setPadding(paddingPixels, paddingPixels, paddingPixels, paddingPixels);