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user1704195
user1704195

Reputation: 179

Android choose custom fonts

How to give a user the ability to select a font? In "preferences", I want to have change Font and there list of fonts.

I have set the font in this way:

mTimerLabel = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.label); 
Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "Fonts/digital-7i.ttf");
mTimerLabel.setTypeface(typeface);

Upvotes: 4

Views: 366

Answers (3)

Jignesh Ansodariya
Jignesh Ansodariya

Reputation: 12685

store the font name i.e. digital-7i.ttf in the preferences, when user will select any font you can replace the name from preferences and use your code like this.

SharedPreferences Settings = getSharedPreferences(
            "<PREF_NAME>", MODE_PRIVATE);
    fontName = Settings.getString("<KEY>", "digital-7i.ttf");


mTimerLabel = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.label); 
Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "Fonts/"+fontName);
mTimerLabel.setTypeface(typeface);

Upvotes: 1

harshit
harshit

Reputation: 3846

You will have to store the ttf in your assets folder. Also, AFAIK you cannot name any folder in uppercase chaacters- the way you have done in Fonts. Rest of the approach is fine. You might want to check the value you are storing in preferences using Logcat.

Upvotes: 2

SVS
SVS

Reputation: 200

You've described the correct model of changing typeface in textView. I can't understand the problem you've faced. Call preferences for a textView, choose font (or its id) and set it.

Upvotes: 2

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