替换Android默认字体文件

Question

Most solutions I read for a over-all app custom-font, is to make a custom class to be used. like this [Question Link]

I'm not looking forward for that fancy solution, but rather I want to know how can I replace the fonts used by android. I am currently using

<item name="android:fontFamily">sans-serif-condensed</item>

to select a font, where there are only few options as default by Android SDK. I want to replace the file where that sans-serif-condensed are located so my the new font I placed would be the one to be parsed by android on runtime. I suspect it's on the jar file created when I created my project or maybe somwhere else since I don't really know how.

How can I replace an android default font file? also where would it be?
I would be grateful for guide or instructions provided, specially if you tried it. Thanks! :]

Answer 1

There is a file fonts.xml which controls the mapping of font families to the actual files. The font files usually reside in the folder /system/fonts .

Neither is really something you can control without root though, so if you want to use custom fonts in your application, custom views are still your best bet.

Answer 2

SOLUTION

I think it would be helpful to post this, though it's already been a long time. I haven't posted this as answer since someone might actually answer a solution. Also see this .

The approach in solving this problem is not the way I expected, I was about to replace font files, but as Malcolm's comment here , to do that you must replace the system's font file, which is very inefficient.

The better approach, which is actaully solved my problem is the answer here: Is it possible to set a custom font for entire of application?

It's about replacing the fonts during runtime.