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Zainal Azfar
931 PointsChange font in Android
HI, I would just like to know how do you change font in Android and use it with most of the TextViews in the display?
1 Answer
Daniel Hartin
18,106 PointsHi Zainal
The are 2 ways, the quickest way (and if it is only for 1 or 2 instances) is to create a new Typeface object and set the typeface to a font file inside your assets folder. (Example code below)
TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview1);
Typeface customFont = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"fonts/customfont.ttf");
//where inside you assets folder you have created a subfolder named fonts and placed a file name customfont.ttf inside
myTextView.setText("My Custom Font");
myTextView.setTypeFace(customFont);
The second way would involve creating a custom class that extends TextView and defining the TypeFace in that custom class. You can then reference this new class inside your xml file or probably more useful is to define it as a custom style which you can easily apply it to all of your textview (if you need that of course).
Hope this helps
Daniel