Adding Custom Font android using lib

Question

I am using android custom font lib Calligraphy https://github.com/chrisjenx/Calligraphy.

But there is no effect on textview. I am using the below code:

    public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    }

    @Override
    protected void attachBaseContext(Context newBase) {
        super.attachBaseContext(new CalligraphyContextWrapper(newBase));
    }
}

In XML:

<TextView
        tools:context=""
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Touch Listner"
        android:textSize="18sp"
        app:fontPath="fonts/gotham-book.ttf" />

In attrs:

<resources>
    <attr name="fontPath" format="string"/>
</resources>

In assets/font/gotham-book.ttf

Answer 1

I had the same problem.

Here, You need to do two things.

Firstly,in xml, add two lines (as shown in below) in root of layout

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:ignore="MissingPrefix"

And last, in Activity class,

protected void attachBaseContext(Context newBase) {
        super.attachBaseContext(CalligraphyContextWrapper.wrap(newBase));
    }

Yooooo, it's done !! Simple

Example please check https://i.sstatic.net/F87JE.png

Answer 2

Create the class that extends Application. Something like that:

public class MyApplication extends Application {

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        CalligraphyConfig.initDefault(new CalligraphyConfig.Builder()
                .setDefaultFontPath("fonts/DINNextLTPro-Regular.otf")
                .setFontAttrId(R.attr.fontPath)
                .build()
        );
    }

}

The next thing we need to do is to open the AndroidManifest.xml file of our application and add a reference to MyApplication in the android:name attribute of the application tag, so in the end the manifest file will look similar to this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest package="it.sbsmobile.golife"
          xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
        android:name="com.example.MyApplication">
        <activity
            android:name=".Profile1"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Also, the instructions at https://github.com/chrisjenx/Calligraphy say to inject into the context, by overriding a method in the activity as follows:

@Override
protected void attachBaseContext(Context newBase) {
    super.attachBaseContext(CalligraphyContextWrapper.wrap(newBase));
}

Source: LINK

Why extend Application class? ANSWER

Answer 3

You can also use simple EasyFonts third party library to set variety of custom font to your TextView. By using this library you should not have to worry about downloading and adding fonts into the assets/fonts folder. Also about Typeface object creation.

Provided font faces. Which might you would like to use.

• Roboto
• Droid Serif
• Droid Robot
• Freedom
• Fun Raiser
• Android Nation
• Green Avocado
• Recognition

Simply:

TextView myTextView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
myTextView.setTypeface(EasyFonts.robotoThin(this));

Answer 4

Remove the namespace from the TextView.

<TextView
    tools:context=""
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Touch Listner"
    android:textSize="18sp"
    fontPath="fonts/gotham-book.ttf" />

(Change app:fontPath to fontPath)

Annoyingly we can't resolve the auto-res namespace.

Answer 5

Create the class that extends Application, now and the following code in it. and declare it in manifest under application tag.

    CalligraphyConfig.initDefault(new CalligraphyConfig.Builder()
                    .setDefaultFontPath("fonts/Roboto-ThinItalic.ttf")
                    .setFontAttrId(R.attr.fontPath)
                    .build()
    );

Answer 6

1) Download and copy your font (yourfont.ttf) file in the assets folder of your project

2) In your Activity/Fragment use the following code to load the font

 Typeface yourfont = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
            "fonts/yourfont.ttf");

3) Find your TextView(or any other view on which you want to set this font) and use the setTypeface method of the View. eg.

TextView textview1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.exampletextview);
textview1.setTypeface(yourfont);

This of course comes with a drawback, that if there are a lot of views you want to apply the font to you would have manually setTypeface for each of the view. In that case you can make a custom view by extending the Textview class. Something like the code below :

public class MyTextView extends TextView {
public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    init();
}

public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init();
}

public MyTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    init();
}

public void init() {
    Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), "fonts/yourfont.ttf");
    setTypeface(tf ,1);

}

}

and use this in xml as <com.yourpackagename.MyTextView />

Answer 7

I've used TypefaceTextView lib to obtain the results you want. Please, take a look at (https://github.com/ragunathjawahar/android-typeface-textview).