How to change fontFamily of TextView in Android

Question

So I\'d like to change the android:fontFamily in Android but I don\'t see any pre-defined fonts in Android. How do I select one of the pre-defined ones? I don\'

Answer 1

From android 4.1 / 4.2 / 5.0, the following Roboto font families are available:

android:fontFamily="sans-serif"           // roboto regular
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"     // roboto light
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-condensed" // roboto condensed
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-black"     // roboto black
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-thin"      // roboto thin (android 4.2)
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium"    // roboto medium (android 5.0)

in combination with

android:textStyle="normal|bold|italic"

this 16 variants are possible:

• Roboto regular
• Roboto italic
• Roboto bold
• Roboto bold italic
• Roboto-Light
• Roboto-Light italic
• Roboto-Thin
• Roboto-Thin italic
• Roboto-Condensed
• Roboto-Condensed italic
• Roboto-Condensed bold
• Roboto-Condensed bold italic
• Roboto-Black
• Roboto-Black italic
• Roboto-Medium
• Roboto-Medium italic

fonts.xml

    sans-serif-light
    sans-serif-medium
    sans-serif
    sans-serif-condensed
    sans-serif-black
    sans-serif-thin