Custom font for ActionBarSherlock tabs

Question

I want to set font for the \"Video\" and \"Image\" tabs in ActionBarSherlock. I have used the following code to do so. Its showing accurately in ICS but not in

Answer 1

You can do it with this:

// Set a custom font on all of our ActionBar Tabs
private boolean setCustomFontToActionBarTab(Object root) {

    // Found the container, that holds the Tabs. This is the ScrollContainerView to be specific,
    // but checking against that class is not possible, since it's part of the hidden API.
    // We will check, if root is an instance of HorizontalScrollView instead,
    // since ScrollContainerView extends HorizontalScrollView.
    if (root instanceof HorizontalScrollView) {
        // The Tabs are all wraped in a LinearLayout
        root = ((ViewGroup) root).getChildAt(0);
        if (root instanceof LinearLayout) {
            // Found the Tabs. Now we can set a custom Font to all of them.
            for (int i = 0; i < ((ViewGroup) root).getChildCount(); i++) {
                LinearLayout child = ((LinearLayout)((ViewGroup) root).getChildAt(i));
                TextView actionBarTitle = (TextView) child.getChildAt(0);
                Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(mContext.getAssets(), "font/font.ttf");
                actionBarTitle.setTypeface(tf)
            }
            return true;
        }

    } 
    // Search ActionBar and the Tabs. Exclude the content of the app from this search.
    else if (root instanceof ViewGroup) {
        ViewGroup group = (ViewGroup) root;
        if (group.getId() != android.R.id.content) {
            // Found a container that isn't the container holding our screen layout.
            // The Tabs have to be in here.
            for (int i = 0; i < group.getChildCount(); i++) {
                if (setCustomFontToActionBarTab(group.getChildAt(i))) {
                    // Found and done searching the View tree
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    // Found nothing
    return false;
}

Call it with this:

ViewParent root = findViewById(android.R.id.content).getParent();
setCustomFontToActionBarTab(root);