How do you change text to bold in Android?

Question

How do you change text/font settings in an Android TextView?

For example, how do you make the text bold

Answer 1

From the XML you can set the textStyle to bold as below

<TextView
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:text="Bold text"
   android:textStyle="bold"/>

You can set the TextView to bold programmatically as below

textview.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);