如何将粗体添加到自定义字体系列然后将其用于字符串？

Question

I read on Stack Overflow how to create a custom bold font and a regular one:

How to create custom font family with bold font

But I'm struggling to understand how to implement this in my strings. Ordinarily you simply use <b></b> to make text bold, but this doesn't seem to work with my custom fonts. All the text remains the same.

Answer 1

I know that you have tried adding the bolded font to a font family, but it hasn't worked. You can try one of the ways below. It will work even if you do import a TTF font.

One way you can do it is in strings.xml You can create a new string and then add the b to bold it like this:

<string name="my_string"><b> My String</b></string>

You will need to create one for each string that you want to bold. Then in your layout file, you can set the android:text to one of the strings from strings.xml and you can set the android:fontFamily to the TTF font.

You can also bold it programmatically using the SpannableString in Java. Check this article to see how to bold programmatically. Hope it helps!