Question

I want to change the app typeface and I can’t:

AndroidManifest.xml

...
    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name" 
        android:theme="@style/CustomTheme"
        >
...

style.xml

....

    <style name="CustomTheme">
        <item name="android:typeface">stheiti.ttf</item>
    </style>
....

But I get an error:

error: Error: String types not allowed (at ‘android:typeface’ with
value ‘stheiti.ttf’).

But I have a rootAPP/assets/stheiti.ttf

I do not understand why get that error, I searched in many sites the solution but i couldn’t found any with same problem

Thanks in advance! :=)

Answer 1

you can set custom font in text view like

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

If you want to implement custom font in whole application then you can create your custom view and set your font at the initialize of that view.

public class MyTextView extends TextView {

public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    init();
}

public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init();
}

public MyTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    init();
}

public void init() {

    Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), "stheiti.ttf");
    setTypeface(tf ,1);

}