Custom font rendering on Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich)

Question

While testing an application that uses Helvetica Neue as its primary font on Android 4.0 I have found that there is an inconsistency in typeface rendering compared to multiple d

Answer 1

Although we never found a solution to the Helvetica rendering bug we were able to convince the client to switch to Roboto after we showed them the bug on a Galaxy Nexus.

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Update:

public class TextViewCompat extends TextView {

    public TextViewCompat(Context context) {
        super(context);
        setup(context, null, 0);
    }

    public TextViewCompat(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        setup(context, attrs, 0);
    }

    public TextViewCompat(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        setup(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    private void setup(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        setPaintFlags(getPaintFlags() | Paint.SUBPIXEL_TEXT_FLAG);
    }
}