Hello,
I have been searching the APIs for a way, ANY way, to define a custom
(developer installed) font on a style, but it does not appear this is
possible. It appears you have to resort to using:
Typeface.createFromAsset()
to load a font file stored in your assets directory, and then
programmatically set that font on every single text view you want it
used on, with 'setTypeface'. This is not an acceptable solution for
our application, which is very complex, and we just want to define a
single theme using our custom font that can easily be applied on an
application, or at the very least, an activity wide level.
I discovered another possible way to set the typeface through the use
of SpannableString. It seems you can use SpannableStringBuilder to
build a String that has styles defined over its contents. However, of
the two types of Spans that allow you to style the text, StyleSpan and
TypefaceSpace, neither of them allow you to specify a CUSTOM font.
StyleSpan lets you pick a "style", but the choices are limited to
'bold, italic, etc (which is font-independent). TypefaceSpan does
allow you to specify a typeface 'family' name, however, as far as I
know, a USER installed custom font is unknown to the
Typeface.create(String family) method, and therefore, the system will
not be able to find my custom font. *IF* TypefaceSpan had a
constructor that took a Typeface, I might be able to use that, but it
doesn't.
It looks like I might have to resort to writing my own Typeface span,
or somehow write custom code that plugs into the Android Style/Theme
system to allow me to apply a custom typeface to my application.
Any advice would be appreciated!
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