android-fonts – Page 2

How to set font custom font to Spinner text programmatically?

January 16, 2023 by Tarik

This is what worked for me (using ideas both from CommonsWare’s and gsanllorente’s answers): private static class MySpinnerAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> { // Initialise custom font, for example: Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), “fonts/Blambot.otf”); // (In reality I used a manager which caches the Typeface objects) // Typeface font = FontManager.getInstance().getFont(getContext(), BLAMBOT); private MySpinnerAdapter(Context context, int resource, … Read more

Android: Want to set custom fonts for whole application not runtime

January 6, 2023 by Tarik

EDIT: So it’s been a while, and I’d like to add what I think is the best way to do this, and through XML no less! So first, you’re going to want to make a new class that overrides whatever View you want to customize. (e.g. want a Button with a custom typeface? Extend Button). … Read more

Set Indian Rupee symbol on text view

January 5, 2023 by Tarik

Hi use this in Strings For print rupee symbol: <string name=”Rs”>\u20B9</string> For print Rs text: <string name=”rs”>\u20A8</string>

Change the font of tab text in android design support TabLayout

December 9, 2022 by Tarik

If you are using TabLayout and you want to change the font you have to add a new for loop to the previous solution like this: private void changeTabsFont() { ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) tabLayout.getChildAt(0); int tabsCount = vg.getChildCount(); for (int j = 0; j < tabsCount; j++) { ViewGroup vgTab = (ViewGroup) vg.getChildAt(j); int … Read more

Font size of TextView in Android application changes on changing font size from native settings

October 16, 2022 by Tarik

Actually, Settings font size affects only sizes in sp. So all You need to do – define textSize in dp instead of sp, then settings won’t change text size in Your app. Here’s a link to the documentation: Dimensions However please note that the expected behavior is that the fonts in all apps respect the … Read more

Android – Using Custom Font

October 4, 2022 by Tarik

On Mobiletuts+ there is very good tutorial on Text formatting for Android. Quick Tip: Customize Android Fonts EDIT: Tested it myself now. Here is the solution. You can use a subfolder called fonts but it must go in the assets folder not the res folder. So assets/fonts Also make sure that the font ending I … Read more

Is it possible to set a custom font for entire of application?

October 3, 2022 by Tarik

Yes with reflection. This works (based on this answer): (Note: this is a workaround due to lack of support for custom fonts, so if you want to change this situation please do star to up-vote the android issue here). Note: Do not leave “me too” comments on that issue, everyone who has stared it gets … Read more

How to set default font family for entire Android app

September 27, 2022 by Tarik

The answer is yes. Global Roboto light for TextView and Button classes: <style name=”AppTheme” parent=”AppBaseTheme”> <item name=”android:textViewStyle”>@style/RobotoTextViewStyle</item> <item name=”android:buttonStyle”>@style/RobotoButtonStyle</item> </style> <style name=”RobotoTextViewStyle” parent=”android:Widget.TextView”> <item name=”android:fontFamily”>sans-serif-light</item> </style> <style name=”RobotoButtonStyle” parent=”android:Widget.Holo.Button”> <item name=”android:fontFamily”>sans-serif-light</item> </style> Just select the style you want from list themes.xml, then create your custom style based on the original one. At the end, apply … Read more