Question

I know how to do it programatically as such:

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

But how does one do this as a style that can be inherited and extended? I just want to declare a TextView to have a common < Style /> tag

< TextView /> has an attribute called “typeFace” but valid values are only “normal”, “sans”, “serif”, and “monospace”

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:typeface

Answer 1

This is not the answer but I figured out a very sad workaround.

Extend the TextView component class

In the constructor of the subclass, fire off the code

TextView txt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.custom_font);
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), "Chantelli_Antiqua.ttf");
txt.setTypeface(font);

…yuck