Use external fonts in android

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I want to use external fonts in my app. I have tried adding new fonts using AssetManager but it did not work. Below is my code:

Typeface face;

face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font.otf");

textview.setTypeface(face);

but its not showing the text...

Please help me with this.

android-widget fonts android
6 Answers

Android does support OTF (I'm not sure from which SDK version but it definitely works with 1.6), I was using a typewriter OTF font for a while but the rendering is nowhere near as accurate as with the TTF version I ended up using (via online font converter). The baseline was all over the place (some letters were a full 2 pixels higher than others), and on LDPI phones like the HTC Wildfire the problem is greatly magnified due to the larger pixels.

user_2802790

I was having the same problem. My font was not working in android either but I needed it to work. Using a font editor, I copied the characters from my font into the font that comes with the FontSampler example from Android-src-2_1. It worked perfectly.

While I will admit that my method was questionable from an intellectual property point of view, I didn't actually wind up using the original font, as all of the characters were replaced and all references to the old font where replaced as well. I had tried 'looking' at the way the two fonts were defined but making all the font variables match didn't work either. So in the ned, I used a skeleton of the original font as a template for the new font.

user_2569060

android supports both otf and ttf formats, i experienced both of them.

tv3 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv1);
    Typeface typeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/TRAJANPRO-BOLD.OTF");
    tv3.setTypeface(typeFace);

this is the step i used for both english and local languages

user_29717670
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