Changing font in AlertDialog

Question

Could someone suggest a way to change font in a dynamically created AlertDialog (in title and body)? I tried in loads of ways, but none of them worked. The code is:

public void onClick(View v) {

    new AlertDialog.Builder( c )
    .setTitle( data.eqselect )
    //  .set 
    .setIcon(R.drawable.icon)
    .setMessage(Threads.myData[0] )
    .setNegativeButton( "Close", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
            Log.d( "AlertDialog", "Negative" );
        }
    } )
    .show();
}

Juan Cortés · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-10T17:02:42.423

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Instead of setting the text of the alertdialog, you should set a custom view form your layouts. And before you do so, modify your view's font.

TextView mycontent = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.yourid);
         mycontent.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font.ttf")

And to set the view of your alert dialog, call .setView(mycontent) instead of setMessage() Although this doesn't change your title as far as I know.

Update I'm seeing you're unable to get what I'm saying, so here's a full example

TextView content = new TextView(this);
         content.setText("on another font");
         content.setTypeface(Typeface.SANS_SERIF);

//Use the first example, if your using a xml generated view

     AlertDialog.Builder myalert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
         myalert.setTitle("Your title");
         myalert.setView(content);
         myalert.setNeutralButton("Close dialog", null);
         myalert.setCancelable(true);
         myalert.show();

This is using a TextView that we've just created, and it won't have margins or such. If you use a readily created one form your layout files, you'd be able to customize all those settings, although you can do that for this example to in code.

Of course, replace the font with the one you want.. A sample TextView from xml could be:

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/yourid"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="8dp"
        android:text="your content" />

edited May 10 '12 at 17:02

answered May 10 '12 at 16:42

Juan Cortés

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would it pop out in the same way? – Laurynas G May 10 '12 at 16:44
Sure, you'r just telling him to use a custom view instead of the default one. Give it a try – Juan Cortés May 10 '12 at 16:44
But it won't pop out as an alert dialog which don't take whole screen and the layout would – Laurynas G May 10 '12 at 16:49
Either you're not understanding the answer, or I'm not understanding the question. Read update – Juan Cortés May 10 '12 at 16:56
Where could I find an example of view layout I need to make? Cause I don't understand how it would work – Laurynas G May 10 '12 at 16:58
Thanks, you saved me! I was confused by this part findViewById(R.id.yourid) – Laurynas G May 10 '12 at 17:13
As I said, you can either use a created id that's present in your R.id or create one in code, both options covered in my answer. Glad I could help – Juan Cortés May 10 '12 at 17:28

Changing font in AlertDialog

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