Add custom font in Android using Calligraphy library

Are you fed up of Custom Views to set fonts? Or traversing the ViewTree to find TextViews?

Sometime we want some other font for our Android application then you can add custom font in Android using Calligraphy library.

Dependency

Include the dependency Download (.aar)

dependencies {
compile ‘uk.co.chrisjenx:calligraphy:2.2.0’
}

Add Fonts

Add your custom fonts to assets/. All font definitions are relative to this path.

On Assets you should right-click New Directory, call it "fonts". In the finder put the .ttf  or .otf  font files in there.

Create Class

Create a class that extends Application and write this code

public class App extends Application {
            @Override
            public void onCreate() {
                super.onCreate();
                CalligraphyConfig.initDefault(new CalligraphyConfig.Builder()
                               .setDefaultFontPath("your font path")
                                .setFontAttrId(R.attr.fontPath)
                                .build()
                );
            }
        } 

Manifest.xml

Add the created class(above) in manifest.xml  as below

<application

           .

           .

           .

           android:name=".App">

In All your Activity class :

In all your activity class put this method before onCreate

@Override
        protected void attachBaseContext(Context newBase) {
            super.attachBaseContext(CalligraphyContextWrapper.wrap(newBase));
        }

attrs.xml

<resources>
    <attr format="string" name="fontPath"/>
    <item name="calligraphy_tag_id" type="id"/>
</resources>

Now you are done your app with your favorite font.

NOTE : If you want different fonts for different activities

In your Calligraphy startup in your Application, add the line:

 @Override
public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    CalligraphyConfig.initDefault(new CalligraphyConfig.Builder()
                            .setDefaultFontPath("fonts/some-other-custom-font.ttf")
                            .addCustomStyle(AppCompatTextView.class, android.R.attr.textViewStyle)
                            .setFontAttrId(R.attr.fontPath)
                            .build()
            );
    //....
}

Now it is easy to make your app looks more cool using this cool library

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Happy Coding...