How to get the System font in an iOS app?

Question

I am using Xamarin Studio to develop an iOS iPad app. I need to assign the System font name to a variable in the code behind on one of the pages.

How do I get whatever the System font is programmatically?

Solution 1

NOTE: Before somebody thinks he has to change this answer: This is answering a question about Xamarin.iOS and not ObjectiveC. The API really uses uppercase properties and method names.

Create a system UIFont and read its properties:

var font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize(10);
string familyName = font.FamilyName;
string fontName = font.Name;

See also Apple's reference for UIFont.

Solution 2

Starting with iOS7, you have a richer way of getting the font, using the new UIFont properties.

For details see:

http://tirania.org/monomac/archive/2013/Sep-25.html