Question

I’ve been fooling around with custom fonts in Android. I know how to import a font and have a text view set to that font. I’ve noticed that once you have many textViews, this can become rather tedious.

Is there anyway to set an entire layouts font type to a certain font face?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

What I did was declare my own sub-class of TextView where I set the typeface in the constructor like this:

public class MyTextView extends TextView {

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


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


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

public void setTypeFace()
{
    this.setTypeface(StaticUtils.getDefaultFontNormal(getContext()));
}

}

Then in my layouts, if I use the fully qualified name, it works:

<ca.mycompany.mobile.ui.support.MyTextView
        android:id="@+id/title_summaryreports"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:paddingBottom="10dip"
            android:paddingTop="10dip"
            android:text="@string/title_strategies"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="#ff0000" />