CustomFontTextView

Create Custom textview android with typeface example

 

In this tutorial, we can learn how to customise Textview to hold a custom font and can use the textview in the whole project.

STEP 1:-First of all create the Assets Folder if it's not created already, Copy the font you want to use in your project.

STEP 2:- Create an attrs,xml in in res/values 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <declare-styleable name="CustomFontTextView">
        <attr name="fontName" format="string" />
    </declare-styleable>
</resources>

STEP 3:- Create a Java class CustomFontTextView.java 

public class CustomFontTextView extends AppCompatTextView {
    public CustomFontTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public CustomFontTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init(context, attrs);
    }


    public CustomFontTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        init(context, attrs);
    }

    private void init(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,
                R.styleable.CustomFontTextView, 0, 0);
        String fontName = a.getString(R.styleable.CustomFontTextView_fontName);
        Typeface face = null;
        if (fontName != null && !TextUtils.isEmpty(fontName)) {
            face = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), fontName);
        } else {
            face = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), "Steelworks Vintage Demo.ttf");
        }
        this.setTypeface(face);
        a.recycle();
    }
}

STEP 4:- Then create main_activity.xml like below

<com.cretlabs.customfonttextview.customviews.CustomFontTextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_margin="12dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:text="@string/app_name"
    android:textSize="20sp"
    app:fontName="@string/steel_work_font"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    tools:layout_editor_absoluteX="12dp"
    tools:ignore="MissingConstraints" />

STEP 5:-Add your font file name in strings.xml

<string name="steel_work_font">Steelworks Vintage Demo.ttf</string>

Add font name to Custom text view in activity_main.xml like below

app:fontName="@string/steel_work_font"

As you wish, you can add multiple fonts to assets and use one by one in your project.

See full article http://thoughtnerds.com/create-custom-textview-android-with-typeface-example/