In android How to applying font for whole application?

Question

I want to apply some font say Times New Roman to only my application. Not to the whole system and not to specific view. As far I know

to apply font to specific view we store font file in asset folder and get into the application as follow.

1]  Typeface  mFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(),
                                     "fonts/samplefont.ttf");
    textView.setTypeface(mFace);


2] To apply font to whole application I can replace the DroidSans.ttf file with my font file.

I can use first way to apply font to my application but It won't be a good solution because I need to modify everywhere and I don't want to do that if there is any better way is available.

Possible Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4395309/android-want-to-set-custom-fonts-for-whole-application-not-runtime — Abdul Rahman, Feb 08 '13 at 02:07

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '11 at 10:38

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I made a custom textview widget and in the constructors made a call to this code:

public static void SetCustomFont (TextView t, String fontName, Context c) {
        Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(),
                fontName);
        t.setTypeface(tf);
}

I'm using the same font over the whole application so I put the fontName in the constuctor and then did a global Find/Replace for TextView

answered Jul 27 '11 at 10:38

chedabob

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See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2376250/custom-fonts-and-xml-layouts-android/7197867#7197867 for a full coded example of this. – Intrications Aug 26 '11 at 10:59
This doesn't answer the question. You need to inherit all the textviews/buttons/... within the app - including libraries :( – AlikElzin-kilaka Aug 01 '13 at 19:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

Android does not provide much in the way of support for applying fonts across the whole app (see this issue). You have 4 options to set the font for the entire app:

Option1: Apply reflection to change the system font
Option2: Create and subclass custom View classes for each View that needs a custom font
Option3: Implement a View Crawler which traverses the view hierarchy for the current screen
Option4: Use a 3rd party library.

Details of these options can be found here.

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '11 at 12:22

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Check this to define fonts styles. In addition, you can refer to this style from your manifest file at the app level

<application
    android:theme="@style/Theme1">

answered Mar 31 '11 at 12:22

Rajath

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I want to use font other that "monospace, Sans, Serif etc." For that I need to include fontname.ttf file into asset folder and need to refer it. How should refer file which is in asset folder. – Vivek Mar 31 '11 at 12:44
Have a look at [Custom fonts and XML layouts (Android)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2376250/custom-fonts-and-xml-layouts-android) – Rajath Mar 31 '11 at 12:58
Neither of those examples are clear. I'm also looking to use an application wide font from a ttf format – Kevin Parker Apr 24 '11 at 19:07
Why is this as accepted answer? Does not help at all – PerracoLabs Mar 14 '14 at 21:01
This does not answer the question or even provide a hint to solve the question asked. – Mushtaq Jameel Mar 21 '14 at 05:20

In android How to applying font for whole application?

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