Custom font in android action bar without making custom Actionbar

Question

My question is i want to change font of action bar without making custom layout for action bar like implment text view and then apply typeface on that text view because i want to too subtitle bar text so what is solution for it

Do you want to change the font of only the title? – Apoorv May 15 '14 at 09:40 — Apoorv, May 15 '14 at 09:40
i want to set font on title and subtitle too.. – May 15 '14 at 09:41 — , May 15 '14 at 09:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

You can use SpannableString with a custom TypeFaceSpan (https://stackoverflow.com/a/4826885/1785133) for actionBar title and subtitle.

SpannableString sbTitle = new SpannableString(getTitle());
Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "custom.ttf"); //cache it
sbTitle.setSpan(new CustomTypefaceSpan("custom", typeface), 0, sbTitle.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
getActionBar().setTitle(sbTitle);

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '14 at 09:43

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You can do something like

SpannableString localSpannableString = new SpannableString("Penguin");
localSpannableString.setSpan(new TypefaceSpan(MainActivity.this, "PreludeFLF-BoldItalic.ttf"), 0, localSpannableString.length(), 33);

ActionBar localActionBar = getSupportActionBar();
localActionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#81D2F0")));
localActionBar.setTitle(localSpannableString);

answered May 15 '14 at 09:43

Apoorv

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where font file put..? – May 15 '14 at 09:49
In `assets` folder in your project – Apoorv May 15 '14 at 09:51

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '14 at 09:50

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Try following code in onCreate()

int titleId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id",
            "android");
    TextView txtTitle = (TextView) findViewById(titleId);
    txtTitle.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.title_color));
    txtTitle.setTypeface((Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(),"FuturaBoldBT.ttf")));

Hope this helps

answered May 15 '14 at 09:50

Aman Systematix

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Using `getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android")` is a bad way to do it. – flav May 15 '14 at 09:58
@Pranav Because `action_bar_title` is a private id. – flav May 15 '14 at 10:10
thats ryt but, there are not any solution for set custom font on actionbar title – May 15 '14 at 10:15
@Pranav I gave you one. The idea is to set a "decorated" String (aka `SpannableString`) instead of a String. It works with setTitle and setSubtitle. – flav May 15 '14 at 10:18

Custom font in android action bar without making custom Actionbar

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