Can I embed a custom font in an Android application?
AndroidFontsAndroid Problem Overview
I would like to have an app include a custom font for rendering text, load it, and then use it with standard elements like StaticText. Is this possible?
Android Solutions
Solution 1 - Android
Yes you can, you jsut can't define it into xml layouts. You need to use it dynamically each time. Check this tutorial for instance.
In case link is dead, here is a sum up of the stuff :
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Get a font file like
times.otf
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Drop it in your asset folder, inside a "fonts" folder
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Get a reference of TextView with something like that:
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myCustomTVFont);
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Grab you font from the asset folder:
Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/times.otf");
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Make your TextView look great:
tv.setTypeface(tf);
Solution 2 - Android
As of Android 8.0 (API level 26), you can use fonts in XML. See the documentation here.
Solution 3 - Android
Your can take look in this thread as well to set custom fonts for all the views in your activity.