Font in Android Library

Question

At the follow link

Android Dev Guide

is write:

Library projects cannot include raw assets The tools do not support the use of raw asset files (saved in t

Answer 1

Here's a method for loading fonts from resources that actually works ;-) Credit to mr32bit for the first version.

private Typeface getFontFromRes(int resource)
{ 
    Typeface tf = null;
    InputStream is = null;
    try {
        is = getResources().openRawResource(resource);
    }
    catch(NotFoundException e) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Could not find font in resources!");
    }

    String outPath = getCacheDir() + "/tmp" + System.currentTimeMillis() ".raw";

    try
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[is.available()];
        BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outPath));

        int l = 0;
        while((l = is.read(buffer)) > 0)
            bos.write(buffer, 0, l);

        bos.close();

        tf = Typeface.createFromFile(outPath);

        // clean up
        new File(outPath).delete();
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
        Log.e(TAG, "Error reading in font!");
        return null;
    }

    Log.d(TAG, "Successfully loaded font.");

    return tf;      
}