Changing font globally

FabianEriksson

Hi there

Does anyone have experience with changing fonts in an android app?
My customer wants to have his custom font included globally in the app. What I dont want to do is subclassing all the used views that i need (Buttons, TextViews ... ) and change the font in this subclass.

My approach that works with API < 21 is based on this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2711858/is-it-possible-to-set-font-for-entire-application
The problem is that it uses reflection, which is not very elegant....and that it does not work anymore with API >= 21.

I would appreciate any help or hint.

Cheers

Fabian

NielsCup

Never mind:

var staticTypefaceFieldName = "MONOSPACE";    
var typeFace = Class.FromType (typeof (Typeface));
var customfont = Typeface.CreateFromAsset(context.Assets, @"fonts/mycustomfont.ttf");
var font = typeFace.GetDeclaredField (staticTypefaceFieldName);
font.Accessible = true;
font.Set (null, customFont);

NielsCup

@FabianEriksson Could you share some code?

NielsCup

Never mind:

var staticTypefaceFieldName = "MONOSPACE";    
var typeFace = Class.FromType (typeof (Typeface));
var customfont = Typeface.CreateFromAsset(context.Assets, @"fonts/mycustomfont.ttf");
var font = typeFace.GetDeclaredField (staticTypefaceFieldName);
font.Accessible = true;
font.Set (null, customFont);