Setting custom font for Switch label

Question

I've successfully set up app-wide custom font with the help of Docs and this answer. Basically I've made a new font style and referenced it in my AppTheme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.DayNight.NoActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/custom_font</item>
    <item name="fontFamily">@font/custom_font</item> 
</style>

It is working, but not for Switch element labels. As user lxx noted in the linked answer:

This doesn't set the font everywhere... e.g. if you have styles that derive from Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat, it's not used there.

I am not sure though this is the reason behind Switches not having custom fonts.

So how do I apply this custom font to Switch elements too?

Rutvik Bhatt · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-11T06:05:48.017

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Set the typeface of switch as below:

switchObj.setSwitchTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(mContext.getAssets(), "custom_font.ttf"));

edited Sep 11 '19 at 06:05

answered Jun 18 '18 at 07:46

Rutvik Bhatt

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This works for me with `Switch` too, not just `SwitchCompat`. – Gumby The Green Sep 10 '19 at 00:31
I will upvote if you remove the implication that this doesn't work with `Switch`. – Gumby The Green Sep 10 '19 at 16:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '22 at 07:04

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for switch label text and XML type of font family: switch_view.setTypeface(ResourcesCompat.getFont(context, font_resource_id));

note: font_resource_id = R.font_directory.font_file

answered Aug 09 '22 at 07:04

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Setting custom font for Switch label

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