Custom Font on Android

15
votes

I want to use a custom font in an Android app but using custom fonts seems to be a pain?! I can setup a custom font programmatically by adding it to each TextView -> lots of boilerplate code. I can create a new class CustomTextView extends TextView and add setTypeface in the constructor -> no xml context aware help for attributes anymore.

Is there another way to setup a custom font? By XML, by style, by theme?

Thanks in advance!

P.S. Is there a possibility to set an underline by XML?

2
androiduser-interface
Have you looked at styles? developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html – Mohit Deshpande
Yes but I haven't found anything useful. Same as for underline. Seems that one has to solve it programmaticaly – GabrielWeis
It is really pain to do application-wide font change. I am trying to create a style which is changing typeface value of TextAppearance style by inheriting, the problem is accessing to the font which is located under /assets/fonts. I couldn't figure out how to access to ttf file in my style xml. – erkangur
Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/3651086/android-using-custom-font – Drahakar
Underlying by XML is usually achieved by adding <u> tags in string resources containing the text that will be assigned to TextViews. However, I came across some cases where the use of a custom font prevented those tags to work, and the only way to make a text (or a portion of it) underlined was to programmatically use SpannableString and UnderlineSpan. See stackoverflow.com/a/10019093/22904 for an example of how to work with those classes. – Giulio Piancastelli

2 Answers

6
votes

You can include custom fonts under assets/fonts and then using the code from

https://github.com/browep/AndroidCustomFontWidgets/

you can specify the font in your XML, e.g.

<com.github.browep.customfonts.view.FontableTextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="This is in a custom font"
    app:font="MyFont-Bold.otf" />

The code supports FontableTextView and FontableButton, but it's quite easy to extend to support other widget types if you require.

12
votes

use this code for change font textview.. 

TextView newfont;
newfont=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
Typeface font=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf");
newfont.setTypeface(font);
newfont.setText("This is the new font Text");

download DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf file from web and put in fonts folder in assets folder.