Android Question EditText control - set font to Courier New rather than a proportional font.

aedwall · Friday at 6:29 PM

I have a moto g 5G (2022) phone that runs my app. On all other devices I have, the font is Courier New. But on this moto phone, the font is proportional, like Arial, and not Courier New (non-proportional. The software is the same, but the display is different. How can I fix this? Thank you.

drgottjr · Saturday at 4:18 AM

you should be able to use whatever font you want. download one of your choice or use the various built-in fonts.

B4X:

    typeface1 = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("JMH Typewriter.ttf")
    edittext1.Typeface = typeface1
    edittext1.Text = "This is a non-proportional typewriter-style font."
    
    edittext2.Typeface = Typeface.MONOSPACE
    edittext2.Text = "This is a built-in monospace font."
    
    typeface3 = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("CourierPrime-Regular.ttf")
    edittext3.Typeface = typeface3
    edittext3.Text = "This is Google's so-called CourierPrime, Courier New lookalike."

aedwall · Saturday at 5:21 AM

drgottjr said:

you should be able to use whatever font you want. download one of your choice or use the various built-in fonts.

B4X:

    typeface1 = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("JMH Typewriter.ttf")
    edittext1.Typeface = typeface1
    edittext1.Text = "This is a non-proportional typewriter-style font."
   
    edittext2.Typeface = Typeface.MONOSPACE
    edittext2.Text = "This is a built-in monospace font."
   
    typeface3 = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("CourierPrime-Regular.ttf")
    edittext3.Typeface = typeface3
    edittext3.Text = "This is Google's so-called CourierPrime, Courier New lookalike."

I think I tried that and b4A did not like ".Typeface". I believe that forced me into using the library called "CustomFonts". Are you saying I don't need that special library? I will try your suggestions and see what happens. Thank you for the ideas presented.

aedwall · Saturday at 4:50 PM

drgottjr said:

you should be able to use whatever font you want. download one of your choice or use the various built-in fonts.

B4X:

    typeface1 = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("JMH Typewriter.ttf")
    edittext1.Typeface = typeface1
    edittext1.Text = "This is a non-proportional typewriter-style font."
   
    edittext2.Typeface = Typeface.MONOSPACE
    edittext2.Text = "This is a built-in monospace font."
   
    typeface3 = Typeface.LoadFromAssets("CourierPrime-Regular.ttf")
    edittext3.Typeface = typeface3
    edittext3.Text = "This is Google's so-called CourierPrime, Courier New lookalike."

The above worked, so thank you very much.

Yet this did not work: "CourierPrime-Regular.ttf" - until I changed the font name to all lower case "courierprime.ttf". I don't know why. But I got it to work.

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