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

Android uses the Roboto font, which is a really nice looking font, with several different weights (regular, light, thin, condensed) that look great on high density screens.

Check below link to check roboto fonts:

How to use Roboto in xml layout

Back to your question, if you want to change the font for all of the TextView/Button in your app, try adding below code into your styles.xml to use Roboto-light font:

And don't forget to use 'AppTheme' in your AndroidManifest.xml

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