Setting typeface of hint in TextEdit

Question

Is it possible to set typeface of hint element of EditText view without changing the typeface of the EditText itself? Thanks.

Answer 1

Seems that there is no way to control typeface of hint and typeface of text separately.

Answer 2

You should create CustomTypefaceSpan to have different fonts for Hint and EditText.

Typeface hintTypeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "AguafinaScript-Regular.ttf");
TypefaceSpan typefaceSpan = new CustomTypefaceSpan(hintTypeface);
SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString("some hint text");
spannableString.setSpan(typefaceSpan, 0, spannableString.length(), Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
editText.setHint(spannableString);


public class CustomTypefaceSpan extends TypefaceSpan
{
    private final Typeface mNewType;

    public CustomTypefaceSpan(Typeface type)
    {
        super("");
        mNewType = type;
    }

    public CustomTypefaceSpan(String family, Typeface type)
    {
        super(family);
        mNewType = type;
    }

    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds)
    {
        applyCustomTypeFace(ds, mNewType);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateMeasureState(TextPaint paint)
    {
        applyCustomTypeFace(paint, mNewType);
    }

    private static void applyCustomTypeFace(Paint paint, Typeface tf)
    {
        int oldStyle;
        Typeface old = paint.getTypeface();
        if (old == null)
        {
            oldStyle = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            oldStyle = old.getStyle();
        }

        int fake = oldStyle & ~tf.getStyle();
        if ((fake & Typeface.BOLD) != 0)
        {
            paint.setFakeBoldText(true);
        }

        if ((fake & Typeface.ITALIC) != 0)
        {
            paint.setTextSkewX(-0.25f);
        }

        paint.setTypeface(tf);
    }
}

Answer 3

Did you check android:typeface?

This works fine both for the hint and text for the EditText.

Answer 4

Don't know if you just need to have them be different, or if you wanted to specifically set a typeface.

If you just need to style your hint differently than your text, here's how you can do it in Java on a per-field basis

1. Wrap your hint text in HTML style tags
2. Pass the marked-up String to Html.fromHtml(String htmlString)

3. Pass the result of fromHtml() to setHint();

   myField.setHint(Html.fromHtml("<i>" + hint + "</i>"));