You can just create a context for the other application, and get its
resources and then asset manager and use that.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Is it possible to import a Typeface from another apk? Or from the SD
> card?
>
> I only found: Typeface.createFromAsset(AssetManager mgr, String path)
> http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/graphics/Typeface.html
>
> I would like to ship fonts as an add-on to the main application, since
> font files can be large. For this reason, the main application would
> have to access a font from a different location than its own asset
> folder.
>
> I thought about maybe overriding AssetManager to provide a custom
> InputStream for the font data, but this is not possible because
> AssetManager is declared as final.
>
> Are there any other tricks I could use to obtain Typeface from a
> different location?
>
> Peli
>
>
> >
>


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