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Amir Panahandeh
Amir Panahandeh

Reputation: 9039

Font resource could not be retrieved

I'm using compileSdk and targetSdk version 27 and in last release I used new font resource feature for my project but after a day I got 3 crashes for this line of code

Typeface typeface = ResourcesCompat.getFont(this, R.font.my_font);

and the crash report says it's because of android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException and Font resource could not be retrieved. All 3 crashes happened for users with android version 5.1.1. Is this a bug in support library or I'm doing something wrong?

Upvotes: 31

Views: 12959

Answers (7)

divided
divided

Reputation: 1

In my case I assumed that my smartphone might have problems with Google services (especially if it is Huawei). Therefore, when downloading a new font, I changed the radio button from "downloadable" xml to the so-called built-in ttf in Intelij Idea.

See screenshot

When using the built-in font, the error stopped appearing

Upvotes: 0

Prateek
Prateek

Reputation: 584

I was having the same issue, so I followed another approach and it work fine for me.

  1. Add a new directory in the app/src/main named as assets and make another subdirectory inside it as fonts

  2. Add a font file (eg. poppins.ttf) inside the fonts subdirectory

  3. If you are a Java developer then write this code in your Activity/Fragment file-

    Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"fonts/poppins.ttf"); 
yourTextView.setTypeface(font);

    and if you are a Kotlin developer then you can use this,

    val customTypeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.assets, 
                                              "fonts/poppins-Light.ttf")

Upvotes: 0

1234567
1234567

Reputation: 2485

while using Downloadable fonts on API level 16

The fonts need to be downloaded so its better to check the Internet connection and download them, even when they are provided from the fonts folder.

Upvotes: 0

Divya Gupta
Divya Gupta

Reputation: 502

In my case, even after upgrading Gradle version to most recent one didn't work. What worked for me was a really trivial solution, updating the dependencies version to latest versions. I don't know it might work or not in your case, but maybe you should try doing it once.

Upvotes: 0

Algorithm and Blues
Algorithm and Blues

Reputation: 893

I had the same problem with a TTF file in R.font when using ResourcesCompat.getFont().

It turns out that Android didn't like this TTF file for some reason. There was no info in logcat, but debugging showed that TypefaceCompat.createFromResourcesFontFile() failed.

I replaced the TTF file with another, similar font and had no problems since.

Upvotes: 3

Vadim Kotov
Vadim Kotov

Reputation: 8284

I got the same crash while using Downloadable fonts on API level 16 with Google Play services 9.2.56 (emulator).

If you're using this, then a device must have Google Play services version 11 or higher to use the Google Fonts provider (see this note in the docs).

Upvotes: 11

dwemthy
dwemthy

Reputation: 471

Had this same issue, noticed a detail in the docs that helped:

When you declare font families in XML layout through the support library, use the app namespace to ensure your fonts load.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<font-family xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
  <font app:fontStyle="normal" app:fontWeight="400" app:font="@font/myfont-Regular"/>
  <font app:fontStyle="italic" app:fontWeight="400" app:font="@font/myfont-Italic" />
</font-family>

I had been using the 'android' namespace before, changing to the 'app' namespace made my fonts load on older devices correctly.

Upvotes: 9

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