Make your own style by extending TypefaceSpan. And then use spannable text
for your UI.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Christian Martín Reinhold <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am using the arabic font at the /assets/fonts folder and then used
> the locale of ctx.getResources().configuration().locale to change the
> locale to the desired ones (having previously added the configuration
> settings uses-permition at the xml manifest), and it works. It changes
> to the arabic language.
>
> The next step is to use arabic fonts, for that y use
> ctx.getAssetsManager(), and there  I specify the font to the TextView
> in the way "tv.setTypeface" so that arabic letters are readable, and I
> used a reshaper (capital letters don't work properly when reshaping,
> but the rest works fine like this).
>
> The only thing is, Menus and Titles in Dialogs use textviews (i
> suppose that), but you can not access to the textview and set a
> typeface. In dialogs you have the option of setting a view, so you can
> define your own textview so it is no problem, but I do not know how to
> do that in the Menu object.
>
>
> On 22 feb, 12:08, G_man <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't mean to let you down but as of now, android does not have an
> > arabic font
> >
> > I have a g1 and I can view arabic (disconnected letters) but this is
> > because I have root access and I replaced the default system font with
> > one that supports arabic
> > your application will not be readable for users.
> >
> > There is a way to do that.
> > You have to put an arabic font as a part of your program and do some
> > sort of reshaper or make it viewable as images. Otherwise no one will
> > be able to see what your application prints on screen.
> >
>

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