Support default font for bold/italic style?

I don’t know if this feature has been implemented or not. I just recently applying OpenSans-Regular.ttf as global default, then all bold TextView turned to normal (non-bold style). I wish there is a built-in and clean way to provide default bold font file (e.g. OpenSans-Bold.ttf) when used by TextView, perhaps by checking it in TextView#getTypeface().isBold().

I think this feature will come in handy because it will eliminate the need to apply custom style one by one to all bold/italic texts.

Thanks

[chrisjenx]

@akhyrul Yes I have been researching how to do this. I expect this will be a 2.x feature.

For example you would define:

fonts/
  OpenSans-Regular.ttf
  OpenSans-Bold.ttf
  OpenSans-Italic.ttf

Which would scope to something like:

<TextView
  fontPath="fonts/OpenSans-*" 
  textStyle="bold"/>

Which would inherently lookup OpenSans-Bold if it can’t find it then apply fake bold etc.

This would also be applicable to strings <string>Hello <b>World</b></string> which would try to find the correct bold version instead of applying fake bold.

This is what you’re thinking right?

[akhy]

@OneManMobile rather than manual search-and-replace, currently I’m using this cleaner temporary workaround by using styles:

<!-- styles.xml -->
<style name="AppTheme.TextAppearance" parent="android:TextAppearance">
        <item name="fontPath">fonts/OpenSans-Regular.ttf</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.TextAppearance.Bold" parent="AppTheme.TextAppearance">
        <item name="fontPath">fonts/OpenSans-Bold.ttf</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>

So I can use it in any layouts like this:

<TextView
    style="@style/WhateverStyle"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/title"
    android:textAppearance="@style/AppTheme.TextAppearance.Bold"/>

I purposely put <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item> to make sure preview in Android Studio shows correct bold style.

Hopefully there will be a cleaner way in 2.x 👍

Thanks