I have been googling around, but haven't found a solution for this.
I know I can change the font of a TextView programatically like this view.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"dejavusans.ttf"));.
But, isn't there a way to do it directly in the xml file? I have found android:typeface attribute but it only have the options of "normal", "sans, "serif" and "monospace". How can I use this font I have in /assets/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf?
Thanks.
I wrote a library project that can do this. It's called Nifty: https://github.com/tom-dignan/nifty
With nifty, you can specify typefaces in your assets dir from your styles.xml file or as an attribute directly in your XML layout. It provides a custom NiftyTextView and NiftyButton that inherit all the functionality of their parent classes except provide the ability to specify the typeface in XML.
Example Style:
<style name="MyStyle" parent="@android:style/Theme"> <item name="typeface">my_font_that_is_in_assets.ttf</item> </style> Example XML:
<com.tomdignan.nifty.NiftyTextView android:id="@+id/title" style="@style/MyStyle" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/hello_world" /> Alternatively, if you are not using a style:
<com.tomdignan.nifty.NiftyTextView xmlns:nifty="http://schemas.tomdignan.com/nifty" nifty:typeface="my_font_that_is_in_assets.ttf" android:id="@+id/title" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/hello_world" /> Get nifty
Caveats: Custom views are not previewable in the layout editor. My way of working around this is using a search/replace.
