MagicViews

Set custom font in Android application

Code Quality Rank: L5

Programming language: Java

License: Apache License 2.0

Tags: Other Widget    

Latest version: v3.1.1

README

MagicViews

Provides a simple way to set custom font in Android application.

Adding to your project

1) Add the library as a dependency to your build.gradle

compile 'com.ivankocijan:MagicViews:version@aar'

2) Specify path to fonts folder in onCreate method of your Application class (See example app).

   public class MyApplication extends Application {

        @Override
        public void onCreate() {
            super.onCreate();

             MagicViews.setFontFolderPath(this, "fontFolderPath");

        }

   }

Usage from layout

1) Add your application namespace to the root element in the XML xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

2) Instead of TextView use com.ivankocijan.magicviews.views.MagicTextView

    <com.ivankocijan.magicviews.views.MagicTextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:typeFace="cha_chicle.otf"/>

For a complete list of features and how to use them see wiki page.

Supported views

• TextView
• EditText
• Button
• CheckBox
• CheckedTextView
• RadioButton
• AutoCompleteTextView
• MultiAutoCompleteTextView
• PreferenceGroup
• Preference
• CheckboxPreference
• SwitchPreference
• EditTextPreference
• Span

Supported Android versions

• 2.3 or higher

Change log

V3.1.0

• New MagicFontSpan - See example here
• Layout preview no longer shows exception when MagicView is added to custom view - See example

V3.0.1

• New letter spacing attribute which lets you add horizonatal spacing between characters
• TabLayout support - you can now set custom font on TabLayout

See wiki for more info.

You might encounter this issue after updating: /build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/appcompat-v7/23.0.1/res/values-v23/values-v23.xml

There are two options to fix that:

Exclude appcompact-v7 from MagicViews library:

    compile('com.ivankocijan:MagicViews:3.1.0@aar') {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'appcompat-v7'
    }

or Compile your app with Android SDK 23:

   android {
      compileSdkVersion 23
   }

V3.0

• Library now uses new AppCompat views which backport some cool stuff to pre-lollipop devices. See Android developer blogspot for more info
• Added new views: RadioButton, AutoCompleteTextView and MultiAutoCompleteTextView
• Font can now be set from code by calling setFont(String fontName) method
• Example app is updated with new features
• Bugfixes

Contributing

Feedback and code contributions are very much welcomed. Just make a pull request with a short description of your changes. By making contributions to this project you give permission for your code to be used under the same [license](LICENSE).