Question

I would like to use the external font Impact on my android app. Currently the code that lets me use my font looks like this:

    Paint textPaint = new Paint();
    textPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
    textPaint.setTextSize(FONT_SIZE);
    textPaint.setColor(0xFFFFFFFF);
    Log.i(TAG, "- Paint: " + textPaint);

    Typeface face = textPaint.getTypeface();
    Log.i(TAG, "- default typeface: " + face);

    face = Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD;
    Log.i(TAG, "- new face: " + face);
    textPaint.setTypeface(face);

but that results in a bad generic version of the font I want to use. For those of you not familiar with the Impact font, its the font that allows you to make meme’s. Does anyone know what I should do to be able to use Impact font instead of the DEFAULT_BOLD?

Answer 1

Use canvas to draw text,

Typeface  mFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(),"fonts/samplefont.ttf");
Paint mPaint = new Paint ();
mPaint.setTypeface(mFace);
canvas.drawText("Default", 10, 100, mPaint);

TextView can use setTypeface method to do this;