Change TextView font which is not in activity_main.xml

Question

I have ListView. It contains 3 TextView not from activity_main.xml.

   cursor = myDatabase.getJoinedInfo(etSearch.getText().toString().trim());

        String[] columns = new String[] { "re_value", "g_value", "ke_value" };

        int[] to = new int[] { R.id.tvHiragana, R.id.tvMeaning, R.id.tvKanji };

        dataAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.wordonlist,
                cursor, columns, to, 0);

        // Assign adapter to ListView

        listView.setAdapter(dataAdapter);

How to change font of TextViews inside ListView?

final Typeface mFont = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
            "fonts/himaji.otf");
    LayoutInflater ltInflater = getLayoutInflater();
    View view = ltInflater.inflate(R.layout.wordonlist, null, false);
    tvHiragana=(TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tvHiragana);
    tvHiragana.setTypeface(mFont);

This code could not change TextView's font. What I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can style your TextViews in xml (e.g. the row layout), as outlined in the styles and themes article.

If you need to programmatically change the font (e.g. only for some instances, or using parameters not known at compile-time), you could create an anonymous subclass (or a regular subclass) of SimpleCursorAdapter which applies the changes in the adapter's getView method. For that, see a slightly related answer to text color changing. Your code inflates the layout (thus creating a new View instance), and changes that single instance, not the instances added to your list.

Answer 2

OpenType Font is now supported Use TrueType Font

Font Supported