I have made an application. My application is using the custom fonts to be applied on the text views to show text in specific style. All thing was working good and looking impressive Until I tried my app on Samsung 10" device.
On 10' tablet I saw my text is not even readable and not looking cool. Its just got cut from bottom and from top. And some words are overlapping each other.
Where as 7" tablet is showing this good. and there is no problem of any sort of in other device.
So this means that custom font file is not damaged.
So my questions are:
1) Why 10' tablet is not showing the text right when I applied the typeface and custom font. But When I remove the custom font type face its all start looking cool.
2) what is a way to set the typeface (Custom font) to be look good in all devices. ?
please help me. It is the last thing I have to do in my app.
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I'm developing an app for android using Rad Studio 10.1 and I'm having trouble with a new font that I'm trying to implement into my project. The problem is, I have to use accentuation in my app because is for portuguese language users, and portuguese has a lot of accentuation. I found a good font on the internet and I want to use, but when I put into a label, the label cuts the top part of the text. An image to explain better:
As you can see, just the accentuation of the top are being cutted, should be a 'Ã'. The bottom accentuation 'Ç' are just normal, and this just happen with UpperCase texts. Someone have any idea why this is happening?
EDIT: Aditional information: The TLabel is alredy set on Client Alignment
I'm having have some issues with using a custom font ( Typeface ) in Android.
What happens is that when rendering text in a TextView, the last line is often partially cut off vertically (the lower parts of letters like g, j, y, etc missing) , even if there's PLENTY of space below the text. I assume this is because there's something wrong with the custom font file ( an OTF file) that I'm using. This does only happen when using this custom font. If I use Android standard fonts, not setting my custom typeface, everything works fine.
Question: What are the requirements for font files for Android, so that they work correctly. (Please don't post workarounds for the issue, I'm aware of those. )
Both OTF & TTF fonts Will work fine in android,You have to take care of textsize and paddings arround it.
A short preface. Thai script has vowel signs that may appear above the consonants, and also there are diacritic signs (DS) that also appear above the consonants; when both vowel and DS present, they appear one above other, so the vowel is set above the consonant and the DS is set above the vowel.
I am writing an application that will display text in Thai. Everything looks perfect in the emulator (API 10) but not on the real device (Samsung GT-I9001 with Gingerbread 2.3.6).
I've prepared two pictures to illustrate the problem. I have a simple layout that has the only TextView at the top; two words พี่สาว and ไม้ are displayed in that view.
This is how it should look like (a screenshot from the emulator):
The first character has a vowel and a DS above the vowel, and the last character has the DS only.
And here is a screenshot from my phone:
Both DS have slid down and now the vowel and the DS overlap each other above the first character. Note that the last by one character appears lower than it should (it should be whole line tall like you may see on the first screenshot).
I've found that the problem is system-wide: I've copied these Thai words to a simple web page and loaded it in the web browser in my phone, and got the same problem. It seems like the font rendering is broken.
So the question: how to bypass this? Do I need to install fonts (how?) or maybe some language pack (again, how?), or the only way is upgrading the Android?
PS: no problem on Android 4.0.4. Perhaps only old versions are affected.
Update: WarrenFaith has given a promising advice about setting the custom font. However this appeared to be not as simple as it looks. I've tried several different fonts including Roboto (introduced in ICS), Verdana from the msttf Linux package, and some others. To see that the font is really loaded and applied, I've added some Latin and Cyrillic characters to my text.
The result is funny. Only the Latin and Cyrillic characters change, but not Thai ones. Looks like the fonts don't have the required glyphs and Android replaces them with ones rendered using some default font.
(I don't understand why Roboto didn't work; it's the official Android font—shouldn't it have full support for the whole Unicode?)
So it seems like I have to find the font that has Thai glyphs.
And I'm still wondering what font is used by default in Android 4.0.4.
Happy end: thanks to WarrenFaith's advice, Google, and this blog article.
If the default text/font is broken, you should provide a font you know that will work. To implement the font, you can use the following answers:
Android - Using Custom Font
Using a custom typeface in Android
I'm currently facing strange problems with Android's font Roboto. At first I had two TextViews in one horizontal LinearLayout, centered both vertically and horizontally. The first TextView was set font Roboto-Black.ttf and the second was Roboto-Light.ttf. Both was set to textSize="12sp", but the one with Roboto-Light.ttf was just a pixel higher then the Roboto-Black.ttf TextView. But it didn't happen when I've set textSize="13sp". So I've created new Android project, just to be sure it's not only in the one application. The result is almost identical, but in this case, textSize="12sp" works as expected but textSize="13sp" doesn't. I've made screenshots to show the issue.
12sp works as expected. Top edges align.
13sp has this strange behavior.
Strange is, that this happens only when I try to mix thin and thick lined variants. When I make one TextView Roboto-Bold.ttf and second Roboto-Black.ttf, result is good. When I try Roboto-Light.ttf and Roboto-Thin.ttf, it also work properly.
So I also tried to test this in photoshop and this is what I found:
It's the same for all fonts from Roboto family, except for the Roboto-Light.ttf. I can also post source code for the layout if needed.
Thanks in advance.
PS: I'm sorry for the links but due to low reputation (brand new account) I can't post images. Also in the last link i had to remove the "h" from "http", because it didn't allow me more than two links.
I can't tell you if its the fonts or how your phone interprets the fonts and displays them on the screen but I can tell you that I've had issues with centering views in the middle before.
Have you tried using a relativelayout and then align the second textviews top and bot with the first textview? That might solve the problem.
I want to be able to run a "Hello World" application on my android emulator in hebrew
How can I do that? is it supported?
thanks
Though android does not have complete support for Hebrew if you are just displaying text, then it turns out to be pretty easy to do.
First you want to add a Hebrew font to your app. For this you simply put a true type font file (with Hebrew characters) in your assets directory. Then you load the font and use it on your view. For any view that inherits from TextView (which includes just about any view that displays text), you do the following:
AssetManager assets = getAssets();
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(assets, "hebrewfont.ttf");
view.setTypeface(font);
This will cause Hebrew characters to be visible. You may need to use the RTL mode character (\u200F) to force your text to display in the correct order. You may also need to set the gravity to right in order to right align the text.
I've found no way to get the scrollbar to appear on the left side. :( Cantilation marks to however display properly starting in android 2.2. I've tested Nequdot in all versions since 1.5, and they work as well. You may want to use some of the precombined characters, such as shuruq (\ufb35) instead of vav+dagesh (\u05d5\u05bc), as this isn't necessarily handled properly.
I have had good results with the DejaVu font, which is freely available.
Although this has been asked a long time ago, there is a native Hebrew support in later versions. The avd with API15 (Android 4.0.3) can display Hebrew nicely out of the box. I'm not sure which version is the earliest with this capability.