How to use custom fonts in Android applications

Here’s how to use custom fonts in your Android application.

1. Select your font – for example, Ubuntu. Make sure you use a royalty-free font (such as that one) or you pay the appropriate licensing fee (because you could get in a world of legal pain and because don’t be a dick)
2. In the root folder of your Android project, make sure there’s a folder called assets/fonts. The fonts subdirectory is entirely optional but to my taste.
3. You cannot specify the font (really the typeface) in your resources, so you have to do in code as follows

Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(_activity.getAssets(), "fonts/Ubuntu-Bold.ttf");
textView.setTypeface(font);

And that’s it.