Runtime Exception: Font Not Found For Every Font I've Tried - Android

I have a custom extended TextView I am using for custom fonts within my application, but for some reason I keep getting a run-time exception where the program can't find the font i

Solution 1:

I think the real problem is that you haven't configured your assets folder. If you had, it would look like this in Project view:

Or like this in Android view:

So you should simply add this folder as assets folder in Studio: Click on your project structure window (or press Alt+1), then press Alt + Insert and select Folder/Assets Folder. Then put your fonts there.

Update from OP:

Okay, so there is a weird work-around for this. Apparently android studio doesn't like it when you add the assets folder straight into the main folder inside app/src/main. You need to add it into the app/src/main/res folder first and then move it to the main folder. Don't have a clue why it's like this but it solved my problem.

Solution 2:

We wrote this class for our needs. It allows to set our custom fonts using attribute, like this:

app:customFont="Roboto-Medium.ttf"

Hope you find it useful:

publicclassTextViewFontedextendsTextView {
    privatestaticfinalStringTAG="TextViewFonted";

    publicTextViewFonted(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    publicTextViewFonted(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        setCustomFont(context, attrs);
    }

    publicTextViewFonted(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        setCustomFont(context, attrs);
    }

    privatevoidsetCustomFont(Context ctx, AttributeSet attrs) {
        TypedArraya= ctx.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.TextViewFonted);
        StringcustomFont= a.getString(R.styleable.TextViewFonted_customFont);
        if (customFont == null) customFont = "Roboto-Regular.ttf";
        setCustomFont(ctx, customFont);
        a.recycle();
    }

    publicbooleansetCustomFont(Context ctx, String asset) {
        Typefacetf=null;
        try {
            tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(ctx.getAssets(), asset);  
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "Could not get typeface", e);
            returnfalse;
        }

        setTypeface(tf);  
        setLineSpacing(getTextSize() * 0.3f, 0.75f);
        returntrue;
    }
}

And to be able to use this custom attribute, you should add to your attrs.xml next block (so R.styleable.TextViewFonted_customFont will work):

<declare-styleablename="TextViewFonted"><attrname="customFont"format="string"/></declare-styleable>

In our case, we put fonts in the root of assets folder, but you could change this behavior in method setCustomFont()

Update

To add this font, for example, we use

app:customFont="Comfortaa-Bold.ttf"

Solution 3:

Try this....

put .ttf fonts in app > assets > fonts > Roboto-Italic.ttf

And then in onCreate method,

TypefaceRoboto= Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
            "fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf");

and set font in textview,etc

textview.setTypeface(Roboto);