anytextview

An extension of Android's TextView, EditText and Button that let's you use the font of your choice

Programming language: Java

Tags: TextView/EditText Widget    

Latest version: v1.2

README

AnyTextView (deprecated)

Note: AnyTextView is no longer being maintained. I recommend replacing AnyTextView with the Calligraphy library instead.

Frustration arise the moment you realise that you cannot set a custom font on TextView, EditText and Button views using the android:typeface XML-attribute. AnyTextView is here to relieve your pain.

Setup

If you're using Gradle (recommended), add the following to your build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.ctrlplusz.anytextview:library:1.2'
}

If you're using Maven, add the following to your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.ctrlplusz.anytextview</groupId>
  <artifactId>library</artifactId>
  <version>1.2</version>
  <type>aar</type>
</dependency>

Alternatively, download the .aar and reference it from your project.

How to use:

1) Copy the fonts you want to use into the assets/fonts folder of your project

2) Add your application namespace to the root element in the XML file that is to contain AnyTextView's, e.g

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:foobar="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        .. >

3) Instead of using

<TextView ../>

<!-- ... or ... -->

<EditText ../>

<!-- ... or ... -->

<Button ../>

use

<com.ctrlplusz.anytextview.AnyTextView 
    foobar:typeface="FontFileName.ttf" ..> <!-- Where "foobar" is the namespace defined in step 2 -->

<!-- ... or ... -->

<com.ctrlplusz.anytextview.AnyEditTextView 
    foobar:typeface="FontFileName.ttf" ..> 

<!-- ... or ... -->

<com.ctrlplusz.anytextview.AnyButton 
    foobar:typeface="FontFileName.ttf" ..> 

4) Profit!

Is your app using AnyTextView?

• Feel free to submit a pull request for this file, and add your app to this list.

Changelog

Version 1.2

• Project is now using Gradle instead of Maven for building
• Packaging changed to be .aar instead of .apklib
• Prepared project for release in Central
• Bumped version numbers to 21 (Lollipop)

Version 1.1.1

• Added missing .recycle() call on TypedArray
• Bumped targetSdkVersion to 19 (KitKat)

Version 1.1

• Made it possible to use custom typefaces in EditText's using AnyEditTextView. AnyEditTextView's shares cache with AnyTextView's.
• minSdkVersion set to 4
• No longer tries to render typefaces if code is running in a visual editor

Version 1.0

• Use custom typefaces in TextView's using AnyTextView

License

Copyright 2015 Hans Petter Eide

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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