How to define a different bold font in Android textview

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I need to use a different font for the bold elements in HTML text rendered in an Android textview.

I tried doing it this way, but it looks like the Typeface style argument just sets the entire textview to normal or bold, rather than setting the font for that style in the textview.

TextView tv = (TextView) dialogView.findViewById(R.id.textInstructions);
String instructions = "<b>Headline</b><br/>Regular Text";
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(instructions));

Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(BaseActivity.this.getAssets(), "OpenSans-Regular.ttf");
Typeface bold = Typeface.createFromAsset(BaseActivity.this.getAssets(), "OpenSans-Bold.ttf");
tv.setTypeface(font, Typeface.NORMAL);
tv.setTypeface(bold, Typeface.BOLD);

Looks like this stackoverflow question answers it, it requires one to merge the two true type fonts into one:

Html in text view with different fonts for bold and italic

But I haven't been able to find instructions on how to merge the fonts in ttfedit. I opened the utility but am at a loss on how to use it.

use a spannable string . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16335178/different-size-of-strings-in-the-same-textview/16335416#16335416 — Raghunandan, Sep 14 '13 at 10:57
that would require me to programatically parse and set the text items individually, which would make it easier for me to just create seperate textviews. We are trying to use the same text view and have all the formatting info set in the instructions string (which would come from a resource file) — MonkeyBonkey, Sep 14 '13 at 11:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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Looks like this stackoverflow question answers it, it requires one to merge the two true type fonts into one:

Html in text view with different fonts for bold and italic

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Sep 14 '13 at 10:58

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '13 at 11:01

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tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<html><body><font size=5 color=red>Hello </font> World </body><html>"));

Try this.

answered Sep 14 '13 at 11:01

Kanwaljit Singh

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that still won't set the font style seperately – MonkeyBonkey Sep 14 '13 at 11:19
Exploring, haven't tested – MonkeyBonkey Sep 14 '13 at 11:30

How to define a different bold font in Android textview

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