In android How to applying font for whole application?

Question

I want to apply some font say Times New Roman to only my application. Not to the whole system and not to specific view. As far I know

to apply font to specific view we store font file in asset folder and get into the application as follow.

1]  Typeface  mFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(),
                                     "fonts/samplefont.ttf");
    textView.setTypeface(mFace);


2] To apply font to whole application I can replace the DroidSans.ttf file with my font file.

I can use first way to apply font to my application but It won't be a good solution because I need to modify everywhere and I don't want to do that if there is any better way is available.

Answer 1

I made a custom textview widget and in the constructors made a call to this code:

public static void SetCustomFont (TextView t, String fontName, Context c) {
        Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(),
                fontName);
        t.setTypeface(tf);
}

I'm using the same font over the whole application so I put the fontName in the constuctor and then did a global Find/Replace for TextView