Issue when using a custom font - "native typeface cannot be made"

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I'm trying to use a font I found on the internet, but the problem is that I get an FC with "native typeface cannot be made".

Here is the code in the getView of my ListVIew:

        holder.tv_SuraName   =(TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.Start_Name);
        holder.tv_SuraName.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(mContext.getAssets(), "suralist_font.ttf"));

Can anyone tell me why can I use the custom rom? You can get it HERE .. the file is .ttf

score 48 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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My problem was incorrect placement of the assets folder.

When using Android Studio the assets folder should be inside of the source sets e.g.

src/main/assets/

Found in this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Mar 14 '14 at 14:52

roelvogel

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This is the answer. Just saved my time. THanks! – stackflow May 15 '15 at 10:47

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '11 at 16:29

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The font file is either corrupt or unsupported for some reason. You can drop it on the SD card and load it from file, to make sure it's not a problem with your assets.

answered Sep 23 '11 at 16:29

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I just tried from File and now the font works! But this means I have a problem with my assets folder, will this affect anything else? Is there a way to fix this problem? – Omar Sep 23 '11 at 16:53
Shouldn't affect other stuff. You can try rebuilding your apk, but not sure what exactly is the problem. Maybe it fails to decompress the file? Try using the newest Android SDK. – Nikolay Elenkov Sep 24 '11 at 11:50
how to drop it out on sdcard ? when a random person is downloading my app from the play store? – Cyph3rCod3r Apr 16 '13 at 15:48
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As a side note: Android studio users need to create an assests folder in src/main because of gradle build rather than the build/assets folder. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18302603/where-to-place-assets-folder-in-android-studio/18302624#18302624 – cjayem13 Oct 12 '14 at 02:07

score 29 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 15 '18 at 08:21

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There are basically 4 things that can cause this:

You use the wrong extension
You have to place the fonts in the assets folder and not inside assets/fonts/
You misspelled the fonts
The fonts need to be lowercase (in my case the solution was to rename MyFont.ttf to myfont.ttf, strange)

edited Feb 15 '18 at 08:21

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answered May 30 '13 at 21:20

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In my case, I was using Bootstrap and the font needed to be copied at the **root of the assets folder**. Your answer helped figured it out so +1. – KrisWebDev May 09 '14 at 11:57
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In my case the problem was lowercase – Ilya Gazman Mar 11 '15 at 15:47
Mine was number two. Good point that might help a lot of people – voghDev Sep 02 '16 at 10:28

score 21 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 16 '12 at 04:04

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Double check the extension isn't in caps, ie. suralist_font.TTF

Fonts often come seem to come that way and it might be overlooked.

answered Nov 16 '12 at 04:04

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Just helped me out with that! :) – mgibson Feb 14 '13 at 17:41
this solved the problem for me too, the bebas font file is something like BEBAS___.TFF -- thanks a lot! – jargetz Sep 16 '13 at 07:54

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 14 '13 at 14:29

I had this same problem, I created mine in assets>fonts>whatever.ttf and was getting the same error. I added the fonts extension (fonts/whatever.ttf) and it fixed the problem in every case.

 holder.tv_SuraName   =(TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.Start_Name);
 holder.tv_SuraName.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(mContext.getAssets(),    "fonts/suralist_font.ttf"));

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 15 '14 at 20:06

Rather old thread, but I want to add one more reason this can happen: You have to set the content view before calling typeface. See example below

Does not work:

@Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        TextView title = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvTitle);
        Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(), "fonts/whatever.ttf");
        title.setTypeface(font);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);
    }

Does work!

@Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main); // <-- call before typeface

        TextView title = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvTitle);
        Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(), "fonts/whatever.ttf");
        title.setTypeface(font);
    }

`fonts/whatever.ttf` part saved me. Thanks! – zackygaurav Dec 30 '15 at 12:50 — zackygaurav, Dec 30 '15 at 12:50

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 18 '15 at 12:48

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I am using android studio, in my case problem was with the path of assets folder, in Eclipse path for assets folder is res/assets/ but in Android Studio its src/main/assets/ So, i just move my font file to this path and finally problem solved.

answered Aug 18 '15 at 12:48

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 21 '17 at 07:13

Either your font file is corrupt else you making some mistake in spelling while calling your file name. I had same issue, it was because file name specified in asset folder was

roboto_black.ttf

and while declaring in java file, i have been spelling it as:

roboto_blak.ttf

If your .ttf files are in asset folder,then use:

Typeface type_bold = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "roboto_black.ttf");

Else if it is in fonts folder, then use:

type_bold = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/roboto_black.ttf");

Hope it helps!

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered May 16 '12 at 08:55

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Hope this will help

Typeface.createFromAsset leaks asset stream: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9904

answered May 16 '12 at 08:55

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 17 '13 at 06:21

I had the same problem with COMIC.TTF from comic sans ms of Windows. Since the original file I placed in assets/fonts folder was in uppercase as spelt above, I had to type it exactly in uppercase. Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/COMIC.TTF");

it turns out the problem was caused by the lower case: Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/comic.ttf");

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jan 10 '15 at 01:47

Please note that this is due to either a corrupt file or you have placed the file in the wrong folder.

According to Android documentation here

main/assets/ This is empty. You can use it to store raw asset files. Files that you save here are compiled into an .apk file as-is, and the original filename is preserved. You can navigate this directory in the same way as a typical file system using URIs and read files as a stream of bytes using the AssetManager. For example, this is a good location for textures and game data.

Therefore your folder structure should be yourmodule/main/assets (e.g. a***pp/main/assets*** )

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 20 '15 at 20:05

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What worked for me was first changing my font name to only lower case and underscore: from Amatic-Sc.ttf to amatic_sc.ttf.

Then in the set.TypeFace method change assets/fonts/amatic_sc.ttf to just fonts/amatic_sc.ttf.

answered Mar 20 '15 at 20:05

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 15 '15 at 09:03

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I've been debugging forever on this error in Android Studio. Clean and rebuilding the project after adding the fonts to the assets directory fixed the issue for me.

answered Oct 15 '15 at 09:03

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jun 22 '16 at 08:36

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Just did a build --> clean and it started rendering .

answered Jun 22 '16 at 08:36

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered May 10 '17 at 20:36

I had same issue which happened on Android 4.0.3-4.0.4 (100% reproducible on emulator IceCreamSandwich mips 4.0.3).

The problem was that TTF fonts, that I had, were not correct, despite almost all Android versions were able to load those TTF font. So I used https://cloudconvert.com/woff-to-ttf (since I had woff files as well) to make new TTF fonts, which solved my problem.

score 0 · Answer 16 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

As CommonsWare states in this answer

I would guess that there is a problem with the font itself. That error will be triggered when native code in the OS attempts to load the typeface.

Anyway try this one:

holder.tv_SuraName = (TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.Start_Name);
Typeface Font = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(),"suralist_font.ttf");
holder.tv_SuraName.setTypeface(Font);

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