How to change the Font styles and face in Android?

Question

I want to change the font face and styles in android. How to do this? Am using emulator. Is this possible to change in emulator. Is there any permissions available to do tha

Answer 1

in android only five fonttype-face

TypeFace

Typeface.DEFAULT
Typeface.MONOSPACE
Typeface.SANS_SERIF
Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD
Typeface.SERIF

and font-type

Typeface.NORMAL
Typeface.BOLD
Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC
Typeface.ITALIC

you can use like as

textView.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.BOLD);

and other way is you can download any .ttf file and put it in asset folder and use like as this

Typeface type=Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(),
        "DroidSansMono.ttf");
textView.setTypeface(type, null);