Question

I see that a Driod Sans Condensed font is available on the android, but from what I can see the android:typeface attribute can only have the following values – normal, sans, serif and monospace.

Question is how do I select this “condensed” font? Also, it’s not clear from the page which version onward is this font available.

EDIT:

I ran a test with two TextView objects having typefaces set to normal and mono respectively and as far as I can tell there’s no difference between the two.

Answer 1

Looks like Droid Sans Condensed is not included in the SDK, but it’s available for purchase:

• http://www.droidfonts.com/droidfonts
• http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/handset-condensed-family.aspx

If you decide to buy it, you can use it in your app this way:

Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "yourfont.ttf");
textView.setTypeface(font);