Using custom font in android TextView using xml

Question

I have added a custom font file to my assets/fonts folder. How do I use it from my XML?

I can use it from code as follows:

TextView text =          


        

Answer 1

Activity implements LayoutInflater.Factory2 that provides callbacks on each created View. It's possible to style the TextView with custom font Family attribute, load the typefaces on demand and call setTypeface on instantiated text views automatically.

Unfortunately due to the architectural relationship of Inflater instances relative to Activities and Windows the simplest approach to use custom fonts in android is to cache loaded fonts on the Application level.

The sample code base is here:

https://github.com/leok7v/android-textview-custom-fonts

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