How to change the font in a TextView
, as default it\'s shown up as Arial? How to change it to Helvetica
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You might want to create static class which will contain all the fonts. That way, you won't create the font multiple times which might impact badly on performance. Just make sure that you create a sub-folder called "fonts" under "assets" folder.
Do something like:
public class CustomFontsLoader {
public static final int FONT_NAME_1 = 0;
public static final int FONT_NAME_2 = 1;
public static final int FONT_NAME_3 = 2;
private static final int NUM_OF_CUSTOM_FONTS = 3;
private static boolean fontsLoaded = false;
private static Typeface[] fonts = new Typeface[3];
private static String[] fontPath = {
"fonts/FONT_NAME_1.ttf",
"fonts/FONT_NAME_2.ttf",
"fonts/FONT_NAME_3.ttf"
};
/**
* Returns a loaded custom font based on it's identifier.
*
* @param context - the current context
* @param fontIdentifier = the identifier of the requested font
*
* @return Typeface object of the requested font.
*/
public static Typeface getTypeface(Context context, int fontIdentifier) {
if (!fontsLoaded) {
loadFonts(context);
}
return fonts[fontIdentifier];
}
private static void loadFonts(Context context) {
for (int i = 0; i < NUM_OF_CUSTOM_FONTS; i++) {
fonts[i] = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), fontPath[i]);
}
fontsLoaded = true;
}
}
This way, you can get the font from everywhere in your application.