Setting Roboto font in TextView - xml

Question

I've found several posts regarding this topic, but all of this topics either sets the font with setTypeFace() method on a TextView object, or creating a custom class which sets the font to Roboto and extends TextView. As far as I know from API-Level 11(?) or something, we are able to set the TypeFace as a xml attribute, some how. Like this:

   <TextView
      android:id="@+id/profileHeader"
      android:layout_width="100dp"
      android:layout_height="100dp"
      android:typeface="roboto"
      android:text="Hello, world">
   </TextView>

What is the right way to do this? Is it possible to have a fallback if the application runs on a device lower than API level 11(?) something like:

 android:typeface="roboto|monospace|serif"

Answer 1

Take a look at the RobotoTextView project. Works down to Android 1.5, and you can set the typeface using XML attributes. It also includes other views like RobotoButton, RobotoCheckbox, etc.

Answer 2

I don't see a way you can define an external typeface as a xml attribute. You should store the typeface in the assets and call:

tv.setTypeface( Typeface.createFromAsset( context.getAssets(), roboto.ttf ) );

Answer 3

You can not set font directly from assets like this you have to do as follow in onCreate. This will make same thing what you want to do.

TextView tvTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"Roboto.ttf");
tvTextView.setTypeface(typeface);

Hope it will help you out.:D