custom font in Android Studio

Question

How to create custom fonts in android studio ? Im trying to use a custom font, and I've read that I suppose to place the fonts in assets/fonts. I have searched long and hard but found nothing that helped yet. Where I wrong? I really do not know what to do. I wrote all the details below. I've tried and did not succeed. I'm using Android Studio and it doesn't seem like I have a assets folder. So I created one. But my app crashes when I place the assets folder in /main/assets. Im using this code to load my fonts.

I know that . structure for a project in Android Studio 0.5.2:

root-module
|--.idea
|--app
|----build
|----src
|------main
|--------assets
|----------fonts/SomeFont.ttc
|----------fonts/AnotherFont.otf
|--------java
|----------source code here
|--------res
|------AndroidManifest.xml
|----build.gradle

Update

my fonte file dir : E:\AndroidProjects\ReadNews\ReadNews\src\main\assets\fonts\

end Update

my code :

 @Override
     protected void onPreExecute() {
            TextView titleTextView = (TextView) _dialog.findViewById(R.id.title_news_TextView);
            TextView messageTextView = (TextView) _dialog.findViewById(R.id.message_TextView);
            String fontPath = "fonts/Tahoma.ttf";
            Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(MainActivity.this.getResources().getAssets(), fontPath);
            titleTextView.setTypeface(tf);
            messageTextView.setTypeface(tf);
        }

error :

06-27 07:40:37.985 4206-4206/com.mmd2009.readnews E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.mmd2009.readnews, PID: 4206 java.lang.RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made at android.graphics.Typeface.(Typeface.java:175) at android.graphics.Typeface.createFromAsset(Typeface.java:149) at com.mmd2009.readnews.MainActivity$ReadNewsAsyncTask.onPreExecute(MainActivity.java:216) at android.os.AsyncTask.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.java:587) at android.os.AsyncTask.execute(AsyncTask.java:535) at com.mmd2009.readnews.MainActivity$1.onClick(MainActivity.java:70) at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4438) at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:18422) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

my ReadNews-ReadNews.iml :

  <facet type="android" name="Android">
      <configuration>
        <option name="SELECTED_BUILD_VARIANT" value="debug" />
        <option name="ASSEMBLE_TASK_NAME" value="assembleDebug" />
        <option name="COMPILE_JAVA_TASK_NAME" value="compileDebugJava" />
        <option name="ASSEMBLE_TEST_TASK_NAME" value="assembleDebugTest" />
        <option name="SOURCE_GEN_TASK_NAME" value="generateDebugSources" />
        <option name="ALLOW_USER_CONFIGURATION" value="false" />
        <option name="MANIFEST_FILE_RELATIVE_PATH" value="/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" />
        <option name="RES_FOLDER_RELATIVE_PATH" value="/src/main/res" />
        <option name="RES_FOLDERS_RELATIVE_PATH" value="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/res" />
        <option name="ASSETS_FOLDER_RELATIVE_PATH" value="/src/main/assets" />
      </configuration>
    </facet>

Solution 1

Your font path is incorrect. You have no fontfolder. Change your font path to just "Tahoma.ttf", or create the folder inside of your asset folder.

EDIT

This appears to be a bug that happens with Android OS on occasion. Check out this link, it appears it has been addressed already. "Native typeface cannot be made" only for some people

Solution 2

It may be that you are referring to a font file that does not exist. Your directory listing does not show fonts/Tahoma.ttf, which is what your code is referring to.

Beyond that, it may be that Android simply does not like your font file for some reason. Try a different font file.