Connecting fonts in your project

Hello to all!

Everyone who developed at least one application for android, thought about how to connect a custom font to his project. So I asked this question. There are several ways.

Water is one of them:

String custom_font = "fonts/custom_font.ttf"; Typeface CF = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), custom_font); ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.sometextview)).setTypeface(CF); 

Suppose you have a lot of TextView elements and how to write a font connection for each of them - you get a bunch of lines. It did not suit me and I began to look further. I found one of the options that I actually wanted to share.
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Create a TextViewPlus class:

TextViewPlus.java

 package com.example; import android.content.Context; import android.content.res.TypedArray; import android.graphics.Typeface; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.util.Log; import android.widget.TextView; public class TextViewPlus extends TextView { private static final String TAG = "TextView"; public TextViewPlus(Context context) { super(context); } public TextViewPlus(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); setCustomFont(context, attrs); } public TextViewPlus(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); setCustomFont(context, attrs); } private void setCustomFont(Context ctx, AttributeSet attrs) { TypedArray a = ctx.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.TextViewPlus); String customFont = a.getString(R.styleable.TextViewPlus_customFont); setCustomFont(ctx, customFont); a.recycle(); } public boolean setCustomFont(Context ctx, String asset) { Typeface tf = null; try { tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(ctx.getAssets(), asset); } catch (Exception e) { Log.e(TAG, "Could not get typeface: "+e.getMessage()); return false; } setTypeface(tf); return true; } } 

Attribute file:
attrs.xml (res / values)

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <declare-styleable name="TextViewPlus"> <attr name="customFont" format="string"/> </declare-styleable> </resources> 

And actually main.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:foo="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.example" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"> <com.example.TextViewPlus android:id="@+id/textViewPlus1" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:text="@string/showingOffTheNewTypeface" foo:customFont="saxmono.ttf"> </com.example.TextViewPlus> </LinearLayout> 

The font file "saxmono.ttf" must be put in the "assets" folder

That's all:)

Sources:

• kevindion.com/2011/01/custom-xml-attributes-for-android-widgets