Font resource could not be retrieved

Question

I'm using compileSdk and targetSdk version 27 and in last release I used new font resource feature for my project but after a day I got 3 crashes for this line of code

Typeface typeface = ResourcesCompat.getFont(this, R.font.my_font); 

and the crash report says it's because of android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException and Font resource could not be retrieved. All 3 crashes happened for users with android version 5.1.1. Is this a bug in support library or I'm doing something wrong?

Answer 1

I got the same crash while using Downloadable fonts on API level 16 with Google Play services 9.2.56 (emulator).

If you're using this, then a device must have Google Play services version 11 or higher to use the Google Fonts provider (see this note in the docs).

Answer 2

Had this same issue, noticed a detail in the docs that helped:

When you declare font families in XML layout through the support library, use the app namespace to ensure your fonts load.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <font-family xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">   <font app:fontStyle="normal" app:fontWeight="400" app:font="@font/myfont-Regular"/>   <font app:fontStyle="italic" app:fontWeight="400" app:font="@font/myfont-Italic" /> </font-family> 

I had been using the 'android' namespace before, changing to the 'app' namespace made my fonts load on older devices correctly.