[android-developers] Fonts on Android, how are they manage by the OS?

2011-06-08 Thread Paolo
Hi there! I need some clarifications how Android uses fonts/typefaces. Questions: 1) my app must supported a huge lists of language so I need a font, which is able to match the max possible number of characters UNICODE. Is there in Android a font like that? 2) I have noticed that on my N1 are

[android-developers] Fonts

2010-05-28 Thread Keith Wiley
First question: Does the default sans serif font in Android support italic? Oddly, you can see italic sans serif text if you indicate it as such in the xml of a layout file, but if you specify sans serif and italic to a typeface of a paint object it appears nonitalic. The exact same code works

[android-developers] Fonts

2010-03-16 Thread Sandy
I would like to have the flexibility of using the bold and normal styles from 2 separate font files, but I am unclear how to accomplish this. Is there some special configuration required in android that permits the flexibility to pick the regular font style from one font file (.ttf file) and bold

Re: [android-developers] Fonts and Arabic support

2010-01-13 Thread Jonas Petersson
Mark Murphy wrote: Yousef Alhashemi wrote: Is it possible to add extra fonts to the emulator? Only by creating your own firmware. Actually, I did some experiments that seem to indicate that with a bit of care you can upload a font that makes Arabic work in the emulator until the next

[android-developers] Fonts and Arabic support

2010-01-10 Thread Yousef Alhashemi
Hi, So I'm playing around with a little Android (2.0) application I'm writing, and whenever I use a TextView with Arabic text, it just shows as rectangles. Since Android has unicode support (correct if I'm wrong), I'm guessing this a font issue. I've seen a couple of other threads about Arabic

Re: [android-developers] Fonts and Arabic support

2010-01-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Yousef Alhashemi wrote: 1. Obviously different builds of android (may) have different bundled packages/fonts/etc, but does the official android build include an Arabic font? What about the emulator? Android 2.0.1 does not have Arabic support:

[android-developers] Fonts of different families and sizes for widgets

2009-07-28 Thread rizwan
hi, I m new to android dev ,can anyone share me the code snippet to play with fonts of different families and sizes for TextView .I have seen many tutorials based on Canvas. but no way to change fonts of Android widgets . Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[android-developers] Fonts

2009-01-02 Thread suresh
Hi Guys... I'm new in the android platformbut i created one project in androidhow to use Tamil Fonts in android..I created one layout and then i set background image...i giving Scrollview...the image also scrolling..so i want stadard background image.please help

[android-developers] Fonts in XML

2008-10-27 Thread PAS
Hey developers, I have a TTF in my assets/fonts directory I can use in TextViews from within code following the API example. That is great for one-offs, but what I really want to do is to use this font in a style, and the reference that style from a layout. Broken example: !-- styles.xml --