How to determine the screen width in terms of dp or dip at runtime in Android?

As @Tomáš Hubálek mentioned; Try something like:

DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();    
float dpHeight = displayMetrics.heightPixels / displayMetrics.density;
float dpWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels / displayMetrics.density;

OR

Try old answer:

Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
DisplayMetrics outMetrics = new DisplayMetrics ();
display.getMetrics(outMetrics);
         
float density  = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
float dpHeight = outMetrics.heightPixels / density;
float dpWidth  = outMetrics.widthPixels / density;

I stumbled upon this question from Google, and later on I found an easy solution valid for API >= 13.

For future references:

Configuration configuration = yourActivity.getResources().getConfiguration();
int screenWidthDp = configuration.screenWidthDp; //The current width of the available screen space, in dp units, corresponding to screen width resource qualifier.
int smallestScreenWidthDp = configuration.smallestScreenWidthDp; //The smallest screen size an application will see in normal operation, corresponding to smallest screen width resource qualifier.

See Configuration class reference

Edit: As noted by Nick Baicoianu, this returns the usable width/height of the screen (which should be the interesting ones in most uses). If you need the actual display dimensions stick to the top answer.

2022 Answer simplified for Kotlin:

val widthDp = resources.displayMetrics.run { widthPixels / density }
val heightDp = resources.displayMetrics.run { heightPixels / density }

Or as one-liner:

val (height, width) = resources.displayMetrics.run { heightPixels/density to widthPixels/density }

How about using this instead ?

final DisplayMetrics displayMetrics=getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
final float screenWidthInDp=displayMetrics.widthPixels/displayMetrics.density;
final float screenHeightInDp=displayMetrics.heightPixels/displayMetrics.density;

You are missing default density value of 160.

    2 px = 3 dip if dpi == 80(ldpi), 320x240 screen
    1 px = 1 dip if dpi == 160(mdpi), 480x320 screen
    3 px = 2 dip if dpi == 240(hdpi), 840x480 screen

In other words, if you design you layout with width equal to 160dip in portrait mode, it will be half of the screen on all ldpi/mdpi/hdpi devices(except tablets, I think)

DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();

getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displayMetrics);

int width_px = Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().widthPixels;

int height_px =Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().heightPixels;

int pixeldpi = Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().densityDpi;


int width_dp = (width_px/pixeldpi)*160;
int height_dp = (height_px/pixeldpi)*160;

Answer in kotlin:

  context?.let {
        val displayMetrics = it.resources.displayMetrics
        val dpHeight = displayMetrics.heightPixels / displayMetrics.density
        val dpWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels / displayMetrics.density
    }

Get Screen Width and Height in terms of DP with some good decoration:

Step 1: Create interface

public interface ScreenInterface {

   float getWidth();

   float getHeight();

}

Step 2: Create implementer class

public class Screen implements ScreenInterface {
    private Activity activity;

    public Screen(Activity activity) {
        this.activity = activity;
    }

    private DisplayMetrics getScreenDimension(Activity activity) {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
        activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displayMetrics);
        return displayMetrics;
    }

    private float getScreenDensity(Activity activity) {
        return activity.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
    }

    @Override
    public float getWidth() {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = getScreenDimension(activity);
        return displayMetrics.widthPixels / getScreenDensity(activity);
    }

    @Override
    public float getHeight() {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = getScreenDimension(activity);
        return displayMetrics.heightPixels / getScreenDensity(activity);
    }
} 

Step 3: Get width and height in activity:

Screen screen = new Screen(this); // Setting Screen
screen.getWidth();
screen.getHeight();

In the new world of Compose on one line

val (height, width) = LocalConfiguration.current.run { screenHeightDp.dp to screenWidthDp.dp }

This is a copy/pastable function to be used based on the previous responses.

  /**
     * @param context
     * @return the Screen height in DP
     */
    public static float getHeightDp(Context context) {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        float dpHeight = displayMetrics.heightPixels / displayMetrics.density;
        return dpHeight;
    }

    /**
     * @param context
     * @return the screnn width in dp
     */
    public static float getWidthDp(Context context) {
        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
        float dpWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels / displayMetrics.density;
        return dpWidth;
    }

If you just want to know about your screen width, you can just search for "smallest screen width" in your developer options. You can even edit it.

Try this:

Display display   = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
Point displaySize = new Point();
display.getSize(displaySize);
int width  = displaySize.x;
int height = displaySize.y;

Your problem is with casting the float to an int, losing precision. You should also multiply with the factor and not divide.

Do this:

int dp = (int)(pixel*getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);