Font in Android Library

Question

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Android Dev Guide

is write:

Library projects cannot include raw assets The tools do not support the use of raw asset files (saved in t

Answer 1

The code below modifies the solution from @bk138 and includes @Jason Robinson recommendations for not deleting the file and checking for a previously cached file first. Also, it names the temp file after the font instead of the time created.

public static Typeface getFontFromRes(Context context, int resId, boolean deleteAfterwards){ 
    String tag = "StorageUtils.getFontFromRes";

    String resEntryName = context.getResources().getResourceEntryName(resId);
    String outPath = context.getCacheDir() + "/tmp_" + resEntryName + ".raw";

    //First see if the file already exists in the cachDir
    FileInputStream fis = null;
    try {
        fis = new FileInputStream(new File(outPath));
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        Log.d(tag,"fileNotFoundException outPath:"+outPath+e.getMessage());
    }

    if(fis != null){            
        try {
            Log.d(tag,"found cached fontName:"+resEntryName);
            fis.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.d(tag,"IOException outPath:"+outPath+e.getMessage());
        }

        //File is already cached so return it now
        return Typeface.createFromFile(outPath);
    }       

    InputStream is = null;
    try {
        is = context.getResources().openRawResource(resId);
    }catch(NotFoundException e) {
        Log.e(tag, "Could not find font in resources! " + outPath);
    }

    try{
        byte[] buffer = new byte[is.available()];
        BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outPath));

        int l = 0;
        while((l = is.read(buffer)) > 0)
            bos.write(buffer, 0, l);

        bos.close();
    }catch (IOException e){
        Log.e(tag, "Error reading in font!");
        return null;
    }           

    Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromFile(outPath);

    if(deleteAfterwards){
        // clean up if desired
        new File(outPath).delete();
    }

    Log.d(tag, "Successfully loaded font.");

    return tf;      
}