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Fernando
Fernando

Reputation: 460

Setting a custom font

I'm trying to set a custom font to my game, but I really don't know how. The way I choose the font at the moment is using this method

    public void loadFont() {
    font = FontFactory.createStroke(activity.getFontManager(), activity.getTextureManager(), 256, 256, Typeface.create(Typeface.SANS_SERIF, Typeface.BOLD), 50,
            true, Color.WHITE_ABGR_PACKED_INT, 2, Color.BLACK_ABGR_PACKED_INT);
    font.load();
}

Where "Typeface.SANS_SERIF" is the font

If you know how I could load a font from the assets folder could you please help me? Thank you

**I am using AndEngine-GLES2-AnchorCenter

Upvotes: 1

Views: 520

Answers (4)

Jitesh Upadhyay
Jitesh Upadhyay

Reputation: 5260

hi please do like this

   public void loadFont() {
            font = FontFactory.createStroke(activity.getFontManager(), activity.getTextureManager(), 256, 256, Typeface.create(Typeface.createFromAsset(activity.getAssets(), "fonts/CUSTOMFONTNAME.ttf"), Typeface.BOLD), 50,
                    true, Color.TRANSPARENT_ABGR_PACKED_INT, 2, Color.BLACK_ABGR_PACKED_INT);
            font.load();}

if there is any text view than

TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.custom_font);
    Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "yourfont.ttf");
    text.setTypeface(font);

beside this visit my blog http://upadhyayjiteshandroid.blogspot.in/2012/12/android-customfont.html and do it in this way

Programaticaaly you can do as follows, You can create subclass for each TextView, Button, etc. and apply custom font in the constructor: 

public class BrandTextView extends TextView {

      public BrandTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
          super(context, attrs, defStyle);
      }
     public BrandTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
          super(context, attrs);
      }
     public BrandTextView(Context context) {
          super(context);
     }
     public void setTypeface(Typeface tf, int style) {
           if (style == Typeface.BOLD) {
                super.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), "fonts/YourCustomFont_Bold.ttf"));
            } else {
               super.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), "fonts/YourCustomFont.ttf"));
            }
      }
 }

Then just use that custom views instead of standard ones (i.e. BrandTextView instead of TextView).

<com.your.package.BrandTextView
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:text="View with custom font"/>
<com.your.package.BrandTextView
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:textStyle="bold"
         android:text="View with custom font and bold typeface"/>

use these all in yours main.xml and you can use them

another possible way can be as follows as well

FontHelper.applyFont(context, findViewById(R.id.activity_root), "fonts/YourCustomFont.ttf");

where applyFont method acn be written as follows

public static void applyFont(final Context context, final View root, final String fontName) {
        try {
            if (root instanceof ViewGroup) {
                ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) root;
                for (int i = 0; i < viewGroup.getChildCount(); i++)
                    applyFont(context, viewGroup.getChildAt(i), fontName);
            } else if (root instanceof TextView)
                ((TextView) root).setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), fontName));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e(TAG, String.format("Error occured when trying to apply %s font for %s view", fontName, root));
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

please visit for more better understanding http://vision-apps.blogspot.in/2012/02/android-better-way-to-apply-custom-font.html

Upvotes: 0

voodoo98
voodoo98

Reputation: 175

In Andengine-GLES2 you can use custom font this way in onCreateResources():

    FontFactory.setAssetBasePath("font/");
    final ITexture fontTexture = new BitmapTextureAtlas(activity.getTextureManager(), 256, 256, TextureOptions.BILINEAR);

    this.mFont = FontFactory.createFromAsset(this.getFontManager(), fontTexture, activity.getAssets(), "your_font_name.ttf", 40, true, android.graphics.Color.BLACK);       
    this.mFont.load();

You can use "Typeface.SANS_SERIF" font this way:

    this.mFont = FontFactory.create(this.getFontManager(), this.getTextureManager(), 256, 256, Typeface.create(Typeface.SANS_SERIF, Typeface.NORMAL), 32);
    this.mFont.load();

Upvotes: 0

Fernando
Fernando

Reputation: 460

I figured it out. Here's the code

public void loadFont() {
        font = FontFactory.createStroke(activity.getFontManager(), activity.getTextureManager(), 256, 256, Typeface.create(Typeface.createFromAsset(activity.getAssets(), "fonts/CUSTOMFONTNAME.ttf"), Typeface.BOLD), 50,
                true, Color.TRANSPARENT_ABGR_PACKED_INT, 2, Color.BLACK_ABGR_PACKED_INT);
        font.load();

Upvotes: 2

M D
M D

Reputation: 47817

Add your yourfont.ttf or yourfont.otf into Assets in your Project and load custom font like

Typeface tf = null;
tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), "Helvetica neue.ttf");
TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.yourtextview); 
tv.setTypeface(face);

Upvotes: 2

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