Select one of the downloadable fonts and click ok.

Font resources window opens and displays Android and downloadable fonts sections.

In the properties window, expand textAppearance if it not already expanded, then select fontFamily dropdown and click more fonts.Using android studio, you can setup downloadable fonts easily by following below steps and Android Studio creates font files and certificate files for Google play service as font provider.īelow are the steps to set up downloadable fonts using Android Studio. The above steps to configure downloadable fonts are performed manually. Setting up Downloadable Fonts Using Android Studio Pre-declaring fonts involves creating array of fonts resource in res/values folder and then adding meta tag to manifest file. To avoid first time layout delay, fonts can be pre-declared in manifest file as shown below. When you use downloadable fonts in your app, required font files are downloaded from font provider when app is used first time after installation on a device leading to delay in first time layout. Pre declaring fonts or avoiding delay in first-time layout due to downloading of fonts Below example shows using the downloadable font on TextView by setting fontFamily attribute to the defined font. You can use the defined font directly in layout or to define styles. This certificates file is referred to in font file using fontProviderCerts attribute, see above font file. Below certificates are for Google play service dev and prod environment and they can be used as it is if you are planning to use Google play service as font provider. Next, font provider certificates need to be added to project by defining certificate as string resource and placing it in res/values. Since Google play service font provider supports Google fonts, set fontProviderQuery value to one of Google font names.īelow is the configuration to use Google play service as font provider. Attribute fontProviderQuery can be used to set font name, style and weight. Font-family element has attributes such as fontProviderAuthority, fontProviderPackage, fontProviderQuery and fontProviderCerts to set provider, provider certificatate and font query information. Defining font in XMLįirst define font in xml and place the file in res/font folder. One is the capability to define fonts as resources in xml and second feature that allows fonts to be download from font provider instead of including them in the APK files.īelow are the steps to use downloadable fonts. This feature can be used to define downloadable fonts and use it in layouts.Īgain, here are we are using two new features introduced in android 8.0 to define custom fonts for our example android app. With new feature in android 8.0 (API 26), fonts can be defined in xml as resources. Making App Download Fonts by Defining Downloadable Fonts in XML Google font provider is available with Google play service version 11 and higher. Google provides font provider app and it is part of Google play service. If font provider app is not installed on a device or downloading of fonts fails, default font is used. In order for downloadable font to work, font provider app needs to be installed on device. compile ':support-compat:26.0.1' Font Providerįont provider is an app which downloads requested fonts and caches it so that next font request of same font type is served from cache instead of downloading. Android support library version 26 supports downloadable font, to use it, you need to add below support library entry to dependencies section in your project adle file. If you want downloadable font feature on devices running on versions prior to Android 8.0 (API 26), you can use support library. With downloadable fonts API, APK file gets reduced because font files are not required to be included in APK file and all the apps on a device can share fonts using font provider without needing to download the same font multiple times for each app.

With android 8.0 (API 26) and support library 26, you no longer need to include fonts in APK files, instead you can use API to request fonts from font providers. To make an android application use fonts from font providers, font files are included in android app APK or APK is made to download font files from font providers.

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