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mudit
mudit

Reputation: 25536

Use external fonts in android

I want to use external fonts in my app. I have tried adding new fonts using AssetManager but it did not work. Below is my code:

Typeface face;

face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font.otf");

textview.setTypeface(face);

but its not showing the text...

Please help me with this.

Upvotes: 63

Views: 87971

Answers (6)

Sven Nähler
Sven Nähler

Reputation: 287

Use Fontinator it support booth OTF and TTF Fonts

It is an Android-Library make it easy, to use custom Fonts.

https://github.com/svendvd/Fontinator

Upvotes: 1

deepan
deepan

Reputation: 124

android supports both otf and ttf formats, i experienced both of them.

tv3 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv1);
    Typeface typeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/TRAJANPRO-BOLD.OTF");
    tv3.setTypeface(typeFace);

this is the step i used for both english and local languages

Upvotes: 1

Kirtikumar A.
Kirtikumar A.

Reputation: 4204

In order to access our font easily, we need to bundle it with our application in a way that our code can subsequently load it. To do this, we create a Fonts folder in our assets direct

This may be your .xml

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/DefaultFontText"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="30sp"
    android:text="Here is some text." />
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/CustomFontText"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="30sp"
    android:text="Here is some text.">
    </TextView>

Write following code in your .java class

Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
            "fonts/BPreplay.otf");
    TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.CustomFontText);
    tv.setTypeface(tf);

Upvotes: 12

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006664

AFAIK, Android does not support OpenType. Use a TrueType font instead.

UPDATE: Apparently OpenType is now supported, at least somewhat. It was not supported originally, so you will want to test your font thoroughly on whatever versions of Android your app will support.

Upvotes: 69

richardleggett
richardleggett

Reputation: 424

Android does support OTF (I'm not sure from which SDK version but it definitely works with 1.6), I was using a typewriter OTF font for a while but the rendering is nowhere near as accurate as with the TTF version I ended up using (via online font converter). The baseline was all over the place (some letters were a full 2 pixels higher than others), and on LDPI phones like the HTC Wildfire the problem is greatly magnified due to the larger pixels.

Upvotes: 9

dave evartt
dave evartt

Reputation: 11

I was having the same problem. My font was not working in android either but I needed it to work. Using a font editor, I copied the characters from my font into the font that comes with the FontSampler example from Android-src-2_1. It worked perfectly.

While I will admit that my method was questionable from an intellectual property point of view, I didn't actually wind up using the original font, as all of the characters were replaced and all references to the old font where replaced as well. I had tried 'looking' at the way the two fonts were defined but making all the font variables match didn't work either. So in the ned, I used a skeleton of the original font as a template for the new font.

Upvotes: 1

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