Update: If you’re coding for API level 23 or above please use Paint.hasGlyph() as mentioned in the answer by Orson Baines. Otherwise see my original answer below. As you mentioned in your own answer there is no built in methods available for checking this. However if you have some control over what string/characters you want … Read more
Short answer This seems to be a bug in iOS. Long answer As you may know, the arabic text needs to be shaped before it can be rendered, that means converting the basic letters (Unicode:0600-06FF) to their proper corresponding contextual letters (Unicode:FE70-FEFF). iOS does this preprocessing automatically for arabic text, but for some reason, it … Read more
I figured it out by my self. This is the code I used. I create custom TextView which has custom font as default font. public class MyTextView extends TextView { public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); init(); } public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); init(); } public MyTextView(Context … Read more
I made it work after doing the following steps: -Put your CSS in a file, for example my_css.css: @font-face { font-family: “customfont”; src: url(“./fonts/arial.ttf”) format(“opentype”); /* Make sure you defined the correct path, which is related to the location of your file `my_css.css` */ } body { font-family: “customfont”; font-size:30px; } -Reference your CSS file … Read more
UPDATE: Xcode 6 Interface Builder now allows you to select custom fonts and will render them at design time correctly. I know this question is quite old, but I’ve been struggling to find an easy way to specify a custom font in Storyboard (or Interface Builder) easily for iOS 5 and I found a quite … Read more
loadData didn’t work for me either, so I used file:///android_asset in the src path. It worked with loadDataWithBaseURL! For this example I changed the CSS to: @font-face { font-family: ‘feast’; src: url(‘fonts/feasfbrg.ttf’); } body {font-family: ‘feast’;} Then use the assets path as the base url: loadDataWithBaseURL(“file:///android_asset/”,myhtml,”text/html”,”utf-8″,null);
Yes, you can use the CSS feature named @font-face. It has only been officially approved in CSS3, but been proposed and implemented in CSS2 and has been supported in IE for quite a long time. You declare it in the CSS like this: @font-face { font-family: Delicious; src: url(‘Delicious-Roman.otf’); } @font-face { font-family: Delicious; font-weight: … Read more
There’s a working example of this in this project. It boils down to: In your assets/fonts folder, place the desired OTF or TTF font (here MyFont.otf) Create a HTML file that you’ll use for the WebView’s content, inside the assets folder (here inside assets/demo/my_page.html): <html> <head> <style type=”text/css”> @font-face { font-family: MyFont; src: url(“file:///android_asset/fonts/MyFont.otf”) } … Read more
On Mobiletuts+ there is very good tutorial on Text formatting for Android. Quick Tip: Customize Android Fonts EDIT: Tested it myself now. Here is the solution. You can use a subfolder called fonts but it must go in the assets folder not the res folder. So assets/fonts Also make sure that the font ending I … Read more