Android text style missing light, medium, thin,

Question

When setting custom fonts for a textview, I can only choose normal, bold or italic:

How can I set the style to be light instead of bold in the following example?

<TextViewWithCustomFont
...
android:textStyle="bold"/>

Solution

This is font specific. Not all fonts have a light, medium, thin attribute/style, but the default font should. You can use the default light font by using fontFamily: sans-serif-light or for thin, fontFamily: sans-serif-thin.

For custom fonts, you would need to include the light version of the font and use it.