How to change the font on the TextView?

Question

How to change the font in a TextView, as default it\'s shown up as Arial? How to change it to Helvetica?

Answer 1

I finally got a very easy solution to this.

1. use these Support libraries in app level gradle,

   compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.2'
   compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:26.0.2'
   

2. then create a directory named "font" inside the res folder

3. put fonts(ttf) files in that font directory, keep in mind the naming conventions [e.g.name should not contain any special character, any uppercase character and any space or tab]

4. After that, reference that font from xml like this

In this example, times_new_roman_test is a font ttf file from that font directory