Sans-serif-light with fake bold

Question

I installed the following theme for my application:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
    <item name="android:textViewStyle">@style/RobotoTextViewStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="RobotoTextViewStyle" parent="android:Widget.TextView">
    <item name="android:fontFamily">sans-serif-light</item>
</style>

So when I create TextView, I get the "roboto light" font that I want. Some TextView, however, I would like to set the attribute textStyle="bold", but it does not work, since a light font does not have a "native" (?) Bold version.

On the other hand, if I programmatically use the method setTypeface, I could get bold:

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);

This font is obtained from the light of robotography and looks really good.

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I would like to have this bold , but I wonder what the most elegant way to do this.

• Is it possible to do this only with xml?

• What is the best implementation if I need to create a " BoldTextView extends TextView"?

Answer 1

:

public class FakeBoldTextView extends TextView {

    public FakeBoldTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        setTypeface(getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
    }

    public FakeBoldTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        setTypeface(getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
    }

    public FakeBoldTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        setTypeface(getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
    }

}

XML, :

<the.package.name.FakeBoldTextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Example string" />