Custom Font on Android

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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?

Have you looked at styles? developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html — Mohit Deshpande
– Mohit Deshpande, Commented Apr 17, 2011 at 15:03
Yes but I haven't found anything useful. Same as for underline. Seems that one has to solve it programmaticaly — GabrielWeis
– GabrielWeis, Commented May 6, 2011 at 8:22
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
– erkangur, Commented Jul 19, 2011 at 11:30
Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/3651086/android-using-custom-font — Drahakar
– Drahakar, Commented Aug 2, 2011 at 2:23
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
– Giulio Piancastelli, Commented Apr 2, 2014 at 18:12

Kundan Chaudhary · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-16 06:32:15Z

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.

Can you help me as If I want to apply typeface from external storage on "textview " ?

Jonathan Caryl · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-30 13:46:50Z

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.

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