Use custom font from res/font with WebView in Android

Question

I want to change font face of html string loaded into WebView similarly as mentioned in this question:

How to change font face of Webview in Android?

The dif

Answer 1

I managed to load my local font from res/font directory. In my example i want to load italic opensans.

My setup are as follow:

1. css file inside assets directory
2. use this for setting the font-face

    @font-face {
      font-family: 'opensans';
      src: url("file:///android_res/font/opensans_italic.ttf")
    }

    body {
      font-family: 'opensans';
      font-weight: 400;
    }

3. Load the WebView using loadDataWithBaseUrl, for example:

   webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, yourHtmlContent, "text/html", "utf-8", null)

   But i have this at the the top of my html content: "”

   I hope it works too for your case.

Edit:

Add this in your proguard config to make it work in release mode.

-keep class com.your.package.name.R$font { *; }