How do you change text to bold in Android?

Question

How do you change text/font settings in an Android TextView?

For example, how do you make the text bold

Answer 1

You can use this for font

create a Class Name TypefaceTextView and extend the TextView

private static Map mTypefaces;

public TypefaceTextView(final Context context) {
    this(context, null);
}

public TypefaceTextView(final Context context, final AttributeSet attrs) {
    this(context, attrs, 0);
}

public TypefaceTextView(final Context context, final AttributeSet attrs, final int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    if (mTypefaces == null) {
        mTypefaces = new HashMap();
    }

    if (this.isInEditMode()) {
        return;
    }

    final TypedArray array = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, styleable.TypefaceTextView);
    if (array != null) {
        final String typefaceAssetPath = array.getString(
                R.styleable.TypefaceTextView_customTypeface);

        if (typefaceAssetPath != null) {
            Typeface typeface = null;

            if (mTypefaces.containsKey(typefaceAssetPath)) {
                typeface = mTypefaces.get(typefaceAssetPath);
            } else {
                AssetManager assets = context.getAssets();
                typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(assets, typefaceAssetPath);
                mTypefaces.put(typefaceAssetPath, typeface);
            }

            setTypeface(typeface);
        }
        array.recycle();
    }
}

paste the font in the fonts folder created in the asset folder

**here pompiere.ttf is the font name**

Place the lines in the parent layout in the xml

 xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.mediasters.wheresmyturf"
xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"