How to change font face of Webview in Android?

Question

I want change the default font of webview to a custom font. I\'m using webview in developing an bilingual browser app for Android.

I tried getting an instance of cus

Answer 1

Many of the above answers work lie a charm if you have your content in your assets folder.

However, if you like me want to download and save all your assets from a server to your internal storage you can instead use loadDataWithBaseURL and use a reference to your internal storage as the baseUrl. Then all files there will be relative to the loaded html and are found and used correctly.

In my internal storage I have saved the following files:

• IndigoAntiqua2Text-Regular.ttf
• style.css
• image.png

Then I use the following code:

WebView web = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webby);
//For avoiding a weird error message
web.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);

String webContent = ""
                            + "
I am a text rendered with INDIGO
";

String internalFilePath = "file://" + getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + "/";
web.loadDataWithBaseURL(internalFilePath, webContent, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");

The CSS file used in the above html (style.css):

@font-face {
  font-family: 'MyCustomRunning';
  src: url('IndigoAntiqua2Text-Regular.ttf')  format('truetype');
}

.running{
    color: #565656;
     font-family: "MyCustomRunning";
     font-size: 48px;
}

I have only tried this while targeting minSdkVersion 19 (4.4) so I have no idea if it works on other versions