Using custom fonts on Android

Question

I'm trying to load a custom font as follows:

private Paint customFont18;
customFont18 = new Paint();
customFont18.setTextSize(18);
Typeface fontFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "FONT.TTF"); 
customFont18.setTypeface(fontFace);

The getAssets fails, thows this:

-The method getAssets() is undefined for the type MyClass
-assetManager cannot be resolved to a variable

What is my problem? I've seen several examples like this but none works in my case. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

getAssets() is a method of Context. If your class is not an activity, you'll need to pass a context into it and then call getAssets() on that.

public myClass(Context myContext) {
    Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(myContext.getAssets(), "FONT.TTF");
    ...
}