How to change the font / typeface of a button in RemoteViews of an Android Widget?

Question

How can I change the font / typeface of a button in an Android widget? When working with normal view is this no problem:

// Within the app
Button myButton = (Button)rootView.findViewById(R.id.myAppButton);
myButton.setTypeface(someTypeface);

However, when working with a widget, views cannot be accessed directly but only via RemoteViews :

// Widget
RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widgetContent);
remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.myWidgetButton, "Some Text");

Is it somehow possible to set the typeface of the remote button as well?

Answer 1

There is no way to change the typeface of TextView in RemoteView .

To check properties that can be changed in RemoteView , in your case just go to Button and TextView classes and check all methods with annotation @android.view.RemotableViewMethod . As you can see, setTypeface don't have an annotation, so it can not be changed in RemoteView anyhow