I want to use external fonts in my app. I have tried adding new fonts using AssetManager but it did not work. Below is my code:
Typeface face;
face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font.otf");
textview.setTypeface(face);
but its not showing the text...
Please help me with this.
In order to access our font easily, we need to bundle it with our application in a way that our code can subsequently load it. To do this, we create a Fonts folder in our assets direct
This may be your .xml
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/DefaultFontText"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="30sp"
android:text="Here is some text." />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/CustomFontText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="30sp"
android:text="Here is some text.">
</TextView>
Write following code in your .java class
Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
"fonts/BPreplay.otf");
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.CustomFontText);
tv.setTypeface(tf);
Android does support OTF (I'm not sure from which SDK version but it definitely works with 1.6), I was using a typewriter OTF font for a while but the rendering is nowhere near as accurate as with the TTF version I ended up using (via online font converter). The baseline was all over the place (some letters were a full 2 pixels higher than others), and on LDPI phones like the HTC Wildfire the problem is greatly magnified due to the larger pixels.
I was having the same problem. My font was not working in android either but I needed it to work. Using a font editor, I copied the characters from my font into the font that comes with the FontSampler example from Android-src-2_1. It worked perfectly.
While I will admit that my method was questionable from an intellectual property point of view, I didn't actually wind up using the original font, as all of the characters were replaced and all references to the old font where replaced as well. I had tried 'looking' at the way the two fonts were defined but making all the font variables match didn't work either. So in the ned, I used a skeleton of the original font as a template for the new font.
