Whenever android fails to find a specific character it looks to DroidSansFallback.ttf, so what you need to do is replace the DroidSansFallback.ttf of the emulator by renaming a ttf font of your required language to DroidSansFallback.ttf. Do the following steps. 1.Get a market enabled rooted android emulator. You can find one here: Rooted Market Enabled … Read more
Hi use this in Strings For print rupee symbol: <string name=”Rs”>\u20B9</string> For print Rs text: <string name=”rs”>\u20A8</string>
It is exposed in the settings menu on some Android devices (manufacturer dependent). It may also be altered by some accessibility options (device-dependent). In general, you should always used scale-independent pixels, especially for a large body of text. However if your text has to fit into a bounding-box of known size then you should use … Read more
If you are using TabLayout and you want to change the font you have to add a new for loop to the previous solution like this: private void changeTabsFont() { ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) tabLayout.getChildAt(0); int tabsCount = vg.getChildCount(); for (int j = 0; j < tabsCount; j++) { ViewGroup vgTab = (ViewGroup) vg.getChildAt(j); int … Read more
Android documentation is not specific on the most efficient way to change the font size globally through the user’s selection at application level. There is a problem I think with the answer given by Black Devil. The problem is that many of the Android widgets subclass TextView, such as Button, RadioButton, and CheckBox. Some of … Read more
You need to create fonts folder under assets folder in your project and put your TTF into it. Then in your Activity onCreate() TextView myTextView=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textBox); Typeface typeFace=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),”fonts/mytruetypefont.ttf”); myTextView.setTypeface(typeFace); Please note that not all TTF will work. While I was experimenting, it worked just for a subset (on Windows the ones whose name is written in … Read more
I finally found it:- WebSettings webSettings = webView.getSettings(); either setTextSize or webSettings.setTextSize(WebSettings.TextSize.SMALLEST); This one works too:- webSettings.setDefaultFontSize(10);
This is what worked for me (using ideas both from CommonsWare’s and gsanllorente’s answers): private static class MySpinnerAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> { // Initialise custom font, for example: Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), “fonts/Blambot.otf”); // (In reality I used a manager which caches the Typeface objects) // Typeface font = FontManager.getInstance().getFont(getContext(), BLAMBOT); private MySpinnerAdapter(Context context, int resource, … Read more
All I did was: 1: Added “new resource directory” to the RES folder, Selected RESOURCE TYPE as “font” from the drop-down given, named the new directory “font” and saved. 2: Added my “custom_font.ttf” to the FONT folder just created. 3: Added my custom font in the application base theme in STYLES.XML DONE.
If you require your text to remain the same size, you’ll have to use dp. To quote the documentation: An sp is the same base unit, but is scaled by the user’s preferred text size (it’s a scale-independent pixel), so you should use this measurement unit when defining text size (but never for layout sizes). … Read more