) Android Tutorial: how to use a Custom font

It is quite troublesome to implement custom fonts on other platforms, but it is very easy on Android platforms.

First, place the Custom font under "assets" and instantiate it before use. The font file is shown in.

InProgramTo instantiate the Custom font as follows:

1. Typeface. createfromasset (getcontext (). getassets (),"Fonts/samplefont. TTF");

The following figure shows the effects of the default font and Custom font of Android:

Source codeAs follows:

Package COM. yarin. android. typefaces; import android. app. activity; import android. content. context; import android. graphics. canvas; import android. graphics. color; import android. graphics. paint; import android. graphics. typeface; import android. OS. bundle; import android. view. view; public class typefaces extends activity {/** called when the activity is first created. * // @ override public void oncreate (bundle savedinstancestate) {super. oncreate (savedinstancestate); setcontentview (New sampleview (this);} Private Static class sampleview extends view {private paint mpaint = new paint (paint. anti_alias_flag); Private typeface mface; Public sampleview (context) {super (context); // instantiate the Custom font mface = typeface. createfromasset (getcontext (). getassets (), "fonts/samplefont. TTF "); // set the font size mpaint. settextsize (32) ;}@ override protected void ondraw (canvas) {canvas. drawcolor (color. white); // draw the default font mpaint. settypeface (null); canvas. drawtext ("Default: abcdefg", 10,100, mpaint); // draw a Custom font mpaint. settypeface (mface); canvas. drawtext ("custom: abcdefg", 10,200, mpaint );}}}

Now, we can implement custom fonts in this simple way.
Here are two very useful methods:

 
// Remove the Sawtooth paint. setflags (paint. anti_alias_flag) // obtain the string width paint. measuretext ()