Android develop LCD font

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How to add additional font in android environment? I need to make a font like LCD with pale background numbers like this:

http://www.androidfreeware.net/img2/gps_speedometer_android_1.png

You may want to consider that commercial fonts probably require a license before embedding them in your own app. — sstn, May 26 '11 at 12:40

score 35 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '10 at 07:43

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We at bangalore android developers group had done this for one of our project AutoMeter You can have a look at the code there in detail.

The code would look something like this

Typeface myTypeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(),"DS-DIGIB.TTF");
waitingTimeView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.WaitingTime);
waitingTimeView.setTypeface(myTypeface);

DS-DIGIB.TTF is the font put in the assets folder

answered May 21 '10 at 07:43

the100rabh

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Does adding a hindi font work for you? I am trying to add a font like you did. But it fails with NPE. – Gopinath Jan 21 '11 at 12:22
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if its ttf it should ideally work, though I never tried it. Could share the font somewhere ?? – the100rabh Jan 21 '11 at 23:32

ios developer · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-21T07:47:01.570

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public void setFontTextView(Context c, TextView name) {
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(),"fonts/Arial.ttf");
name.setTypeface(font);
}

Download Arial font in ttf file formate and put in asset folder. Thats enough.

edited Apr 21 '11 at 07:47

answered Apr 21 '11 at 06:42

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clarification: according to your example, the developer should put Arial.ttf within assets/fonts – Someone Somewhere May 10 '11 at 22:54

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered May 21 '10 at 01:10

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You want to use the android.graphics.Typeface class, which can create new Typefaces from assets or files.

answered May 21 '10 at 01:10

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