Using Custom Fonts

Lastly we’re going to examine the process of using custom fonts. We’ll use this font for demonstration purposes. Download it and place the TTF file in the ./assets directory (create it if it doesn’t exist yet).

We’re going to use a basic layout file with a TextView, marked with an id of “custom_font” so we can access it in our code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

              android:orientation="vertical"

              android:layout_width="fill_parent"

              android:layout_height="fill_parent"

        >

 

    <TextView

            android:id="@+id/custom_font"

            android:layout_width="fill_parent"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="This is the Chantelli Antiqua font."

            />

 

</LinearLayout>

Open your main activity file and insert this into the onCreate() method:

TextView txt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.custom_font);

        Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "Chantelli_Antiqua.ttf");

        txt.setTypeface(font);