Try using own Font in Application throws error

Question

i'm trying to set a custom Font to all of my TextViews/EditViews and so on. And i followed this answere: Is it possible to set a custom font for entire of application?

For this i have a .ttf file in assets/Fonts/myFont.ttf. To add this Font to all of my TextViews i'm overriding the TextView-Class:

public class MyCustomTextView extends TextView {

public MyCustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    init();
}

public MyCustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init();
}

public MyCustomTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    init();
}

private void init() {
    Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(),
                                           "myFont.ttf");
    setTypeface(tf);
}

}

To add this to my TextView i simply do in the layout:

 <com.android.faccess.MyCustomTextView
    android:id="@+id/textview"
    style="@style/textview" />

Where the Style is:

<style name="textview">
    <item name="android:layout_width">fill_parent</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">28dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_gravity">center_horizontal|center_vertical</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">5dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginRight">5dp</item>

The Error

I think i do miss something really simple. This is the LogCat:

12-17 10:16:21.633: E/AndroidRuntime(2094): android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #8: Error inflating class com.android.faccess.MyCustomTextView 12-17 10:16:21.633: E/AndroidRuntime(2094): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made 12-17 10:16:21.633: E/AndroidRuntime(2094): at android.graphics.Typeface.<init>(Typeface.java:175) 12-17 10:16:21.633: E/AndroidRuntime(2094): at android.graphics.Typeface.createFromAsset(Typeface.java:149) 12-17 10:16:21.633: E/AndroidRuntime(2094): at com.android.faccess.MyCustomTextView.init(MyCustomTextView.java:28) 12-17 10:16:21.633: E/AndroidRuntime(2094): at com.android.faccess.MyCustomTextView.<init>(MyCustomTextView.java:18) 12-17 10:16:21.633: E/AndroidRuntime(2094): ... 51 more

I'm developing for Android 4.0 and above so no Need to worry about leaks with this solution.

Any help is appreciated.

Try this answer, may be this is your problem.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19615217/changing-font-in-android-app-crashes-the-application-native-typeface-cannot-be — Remees M Syde, Dec 17 '14 at 09:43
@RemeesMSyde That worked ! Nice. Post it as an answere and i will mark as accepted ! Thank you! — MMike, Dec 17 '14 at 09:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Are you created a folder called fonts in assets or directly placed in assets folder??if folder not created create a folder and place your font file there . If no fonts folder use the path like this.

Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "myfont.TTF");

else

Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/myfont.TTF");

For more info try this

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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