Saturday, 30 September 2017

How to change fontFamily of TextView in Android



So I'd like to change the android:fontFamily in Android but I don't see any pre-defined fonts in Android. How do I select one of the pre-defined ones? I don't really need to define my own TypeFace but all I need is something different from what it shows right now.




android:id="@+id/HeaderText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="52dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="CallerBlocker"
android:textSize="40dp"
android:fontFamily="Arial"

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It seems what I did up there won't really work! BTW android:fontFamily="Arial" was a stupid attempt!


Answer



From android 4.1 / 4.2 / 5.0, the following Roboto font families are available:



android:fontFamily="sans-serif"           // roboto regular
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light" // roboto light
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-condensed" // roboto condensed

android:fontFamily="sans-serif-black" // roboto black
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-thin" // roboto thin (android 4.2)
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium" // roboto medium (android 5.0)


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in combination with



android:textStyle="normal|bold|italic"



this 16 variants are possible:




  • Roboto regular

  • Roboto italic

  • Roboto bold

  • Roboto bold italic

  • Roboto-Light


  • Roboto-Light italic

  • Roboto-Thin

  • Roboto-Thin italic

  • Roboto-Condensed

  • Roboto-Condensed italic

  • Roboto-Condensed bold

  • Roboto-Condensed bold italic

  • Roboto-Black

  • Roboto-Black italic

  • Roboto-Medium


  • Roboto-Medium italic



fonts.xml





sans-serif-light
sans-serif-medium
sans-serif

sans-serif-condensed
sans-serif-black
sans-serif-thin


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