Set custom font on android – from assets

Among other nice things that Android has, we can also load custom fonts.
To do that we need to get a font file with the desired font. There are some sites where you can find open source fonts like this or this.Ok, I assume you downloaded this font file angrybirds-regular.ttf .

Step 1:

– put the font file in the android assets directory

Step 2:

Create a util class that we will use it when we need to load our font:

/**
* Used to load fonts from the assets directory
*
* @author Catalin Prata
* Date: 04/22/13
*/
public class FontUtils {

// font file name
 public static final String FONT_ANGRY_BIRDS = "angrybirds-regular.ttf";

 // store the opened typefaces(fonts)
 private static final Hashtable<String, Typeface> mCache = new Hashtable<String, Typeface>();

/**
 * Load the given font from assets
 *
 * @param fontName font name
 * @return Typeface object representing the font painting
 */
 public static Typeface loadFontFromAssets(String fontName) {

     // make sure we load each font only once
     synchronized (mCache) {

         if (!mCache.containsKey(fontName)) {
            Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(ApplicationProvider.context().getAssets(), fontName);
            mCache.put(fontName, typeface);
         }

         mCache.get(fontName);
     }
 }
}

Step 3:

– use the font load method to set the font of a TextView:

// I assume that myTextView is an instance of a TextView class and it is the text view that I want to have the custom font
myTextView.setTypeface(FontUtils.loadFontFromAssets());

When you use custom fonts and load them from the assets multiple times you might get some crashes, with the class above, you won’t have any problems.

I hope it will help you! 🙂