Check the family of a Typeface object in Android

Question

Is it possible to check what family a Typeface object is using in Android API 8?

I am creating the Typeface on a Paint object like so

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Answer 1

Not readily. The key to the family is a native_instance int, which is package-private and is not directly exposed, as you can see in the source code.

There are various nasty ways of getting at that information, which may or may not work on all devices and all past/present/future versions of Android.

Perhaps you could create your own wrapper object around Typeface that tracks this information.

Answer 2

If you look at the sources, you will see that the default ones are created with style DEFAULT (*), so:

Typeface paintTf = paint.getTypeface();
Typeface.SERIF.equals(Typeface.create(paintTf, Typeface.DEFAULT));

might do the job (here I check is family is serif).

NB: (*) is not true for DEFAULT_BOLD.