Text with custom font and bold style

Question

I am developing an application. I am using custom font. \".ttf\" file to customize font of text view. I used the code as:

Typeface tfArchitectsDaughter = Typ         


        

Answer 1

You can make your text bold as :

TextView.setTextAppearance(getApplicationContext(), R.style.boldText);

Answer 2

Use a SpannableString. Also have a look at this tutorial.http://blog.stylingandroid.com/archives/177.

String tempString="Copyright";
TextView text=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.text);
SpannableString spanString = new SpannableString(tempString);
spanString.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
spanString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
spanString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.ITALIC), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
text.setText(spanString);

You can also use different color for text's in textview.

SpannableString text = new SpannableString("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet");  
// make "Lorem" (characters 0 to 5) red  
text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, 5, 0);  
textView.setText(text, BufferType.SPANNABLE);

http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/android_textview_rich_text_spannablestring. The link gives you more example of styling using spannable string.

Answer 3

Use the code for making text bold as :

TextView.setTextAppearance(getApplicationContext(), R.style.boldText);

Answer 4

You can achieve it with

textview.setTypeface(tfArchitectsDaughter, Typeface.BOLD);

Note: For sure you can use also ITALIC and BOLD_ITALIC

Answer 5

You can use the below code to set your text as bold

create a seperate file as style.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="boldText">
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold|italic</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
    </style>

    <style name="normalText">
        <item name="android:textStyle">normal</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#C0C0C0</item>
    </style>
</resources>

And in your java file if you want the text to be bold after can action means

Typeface tfArchitectsDaughter = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/ArchitectsDaughter.ttf");
textview.setTypeface(tfArchitectsDaughter);

myTextView.setTextAppearance(getApplicationContext(), R.style.boldText);