Android - How to change bottom navigation bar text's font family

Question

I have created a bottom bar navigation in my android page. But now I want to apply the custom font-family in bottom navigation texts.

This is the bottom navigation c

Answer 1

In your layout:

<com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
    ...
    app:itemTextAppearanceActive="@style/BottomNavigationViewTextStyle"
    app:itemTextAppearanceInactive="@style/BottomNavigationViewTextStyle"
    ... />

In your styles.xml:

<style name="BottomNavigationViewTextStyle">
    ...
    <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/whatever_font</item>
    ...
</style>

Answer 2

Kotlin Code of custom BottomNavigationView to set custom font:

1.Keep a font to assets directory of your android studio project. Here I used my font "SolaimanLipi_20-04-07.ttf"

2.Copy below kotlin code and paste to your android studio project.

class FontBottomNavigationView : BottomNavigationView {


constructor(context: Context) : super(context) {

}

constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet) : super(context, attrs) {

}

constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet, defStyle: Int) : super(context, attrs, defStyle) {

}

private var fontFace: Typeface? = null

override fun onLayout(changed: Boolean, left: Int, top: Int, right: Int, bottom: Int) {
    super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom)

    val bottomMenu = getChildAt(0) as ViewGroup
    val bottomMenuChildCount: Int = bottomMenu.childCount
    var item: BottomNavigationItemView? = null
    var itemTitle: View? = null
    var shiftingMode: Field? = null

    if (fontFace == null){
        fontFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.assets, "SolaimanLipi_20-04-07.ttf") // font from assets directory
    }

    try {
        shiftingMode = bottomMenu.javaClass.getDeclaredField("mShiftingMode")
        shiftingMode.isAccessible = true
        shiftingMode.setBoolean(bottomMenu, false)
        shiftingMode.isAccessible = false
    } catch (e: Exception){
        e.printStackTrace()
    }

    for (i in 0..bottomMenuChildCount){
        try {
            item = bottomMenu.getChildAt(i) as BottomNavigationItemView
            itemTitle = item.getChildAt(1)
            ((itemTitle as BaselineLayout).getChildAt(0) as AppCompatTextView).typeface = fontFace
            ((itemTitle as BaselineLayout).getChildAt(1) as AppCompatTextView).typeface = fontFace
        } catch (e: Exception){
            e.printStackTrace()
        }

    }

}}

3.Use on xml file as like below:

<com.example.projectname.FontBottomNavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="0dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="0dp"
        android:background="?android:attr/windowBackground"
        app:menu="@menu/bottom_nav_menu" />

@Arash answer helped:

Answer 3

If you have a CustomFont in "Asset Folder" and you want to set in your "Bottom Navigation" use this code

        public static void persian_iran_font(final Context context, final View v) {
            try {
                if (v instanceof ViewGroup) {
                    ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) v;
                    for (int i = 0; i < vg.getChildCount(); i++) {
                        View child = vg.getChildAt(i);
                        persian_iran_font(context, child);
                    }
                } else if (v instanceof TextView) {
                    ((TextView) v).setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), "teshrinarmedium.otf"));
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
        }
    

And then use methode in your MainActivity Like This

  BottomNavigationView navigation = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation);
  persian_iran_font(getApplicationContext(), navigation);

kotlin Version

fun persian_iran_font(context: Context, v: View) {
    try {
        if (v is ViewGroup) {
            val vg = v as ViewGroup
            for (i in 0 until vg.childCount) {
                val child: View = vg.getChildAt(i)
                persian_iran_font(context, child)
            }
        } else if (v is TextView) {
            (v as TextView).setTypeface(
                Typeface.createFromAsset(
                    context.getAssets(),
                    "teshrinarmedium.otf"
                )
            )
        }
    } catch (e: Exception) {
    }
}

Goodluck

Answer 4

Kotlin language:

1: Create a file with a custom name, ex: BottomNavigationViewExtension.kt

2: Put the code below:

import android.graphics.Typeface
import android.view.View
import android.view.ViewGroup
import android.widget.TextView
import com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView

fun BottomNavigationView.changeNavTypeface(typeface: Typeface) {
    val view: View = this
    checker(view, typeface)

}
private fun checker(view: View, typeface: Typeface) {
    if (view is ViewGroup) {
        for (i in 0 until view.childCount) {
            val child = view.getChildAt(i)
            checker(child, typeface)
        }
    } else if (view is TextView) {
        view.typeface = typeface
    }
}

3: Usage:

navView.changeNavTypeface(
    Typeface.createFromAsset(
        assets,
        "fonts/IRANSansMobile.ttf"
    )
)

Answer 5

style.xml

<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

</style>
<style name="Widget.BottomNavigationView"
    parent="Widget.Design.BottomNavigationView">
    <item name="fontFamily">@font/segoe_ui_semibold</item>
</style>
</resources>

activity_main.xml

 <com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
    android:id="@+id/bottom_navigation_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:background="#FFF"
    app:itemIconTint="@color/navigation_bottom"
    app:itemTextColor="@color/navigation_bottom"
    app:labelVisibilityMode="labeled"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    android:theme="@style/Widget.BottomNavigationView" (this line)
    app:menu="@menu/nav_items" />