[F/OS] 🎨 Font Typeface - Set Fonts For Your Components Dynamically

[Hmmm]

This extension adds storage permission in manifest or not?

[gordonlu310]

No, why would it add permission in Manifest? It is just an extension to set the font among 4 options, which is in the Android class Typeface, so it does not acces the storage system.

Typeface  |  Android Developers

You can always go to GitHub and review the source code of the extension. No libraries, no extra permissions, only the 4 built-in fonts.

[Hmmm]

Ok thank you was asking coz myfonts adds storage permission to manifest.

[dora_paz]

Yes but with MyFonts extension you can add any custom font instead with this extension you only have the ability to set properties for default fonts used by MIT App Inventor from blocks

@gordonlu310

You can choose between Serif, Sans Serif, Monospace or Default.

[Hmmm]

But that permission is useless when I upload my font in assets

[gordonlu310]

There are a lot of types of "Serif" fonts online that you can find. The "Serif" block in this extension uses the default Serif font of Android. The "Serif" font sets this property dynamically, because currently, there is not a feature to do this.

[Anke]

@Hmmm

permission is useless when I upload my font in assets

MyFonts → use your own custom fonts (a modified version of @Ken's YourFont extension)

Here is a new version that does not add READ permission to the Manifest. If you use this version the fonts must be stored in the assets. MyFonts_3.aix (5.9 KB) (WRITE permission was never declared before anyway.)

[ChrisWard]

@gordonlu310

Some of the most popular components, e.g., Label, TextBox, do not have the function to settle FontBold, FontItalic and FontTypeface natively, so I made this extension.

Well of course they can be via the Designer palette, you mean they do not have the same attribute settings via Blocks, so your extension is fixing that anomaly.

[ChrisWard]

This extension allows the developer to set some basic font settings via Blocks for individual Components. Works well in my test, on App Inventor nb188a.

[gordonlu310]

@gordonlu310

• User Interface: Button, Checkbox, DatePicker, Label, ListPicker, PasswordTextBox, Switch, TextBox, TimePicker.
• Media: ImagePicker
• Social: ContactPicker, EmailPicker, PhoneNumberPicker

It only supports these components because technically, these components are all "TextView"s (they are all sub-classes of the android.widget.TextView family). I'm still finding a way to change the ListView fonts.

[userappinventor]

Have you found a way to change listview fonts?
I am still waiting for your listview fonts aix.

[gordonlu310]

@userappinventor

change listview fonts?

ListView is a bit different. It is a special library (I think), so it might be impossible to do that. But I’ll check on that.

[oseamiya]

You should see the source code :

mit-cml/appinventor-sources/blob/master/appinventor/components/src/com/google/appinventor/components/runtime/ListView.java

@gordonlu310

it might be impossible

It might be possible.

[userappinventor]

Do you mean you can make aix with this java code? I don't know about java.
How do I use this java code? I'm still looking for a way to handle listview font using code.

Can you give me any tips?

[White_Tiger]

Post the design waht kind you listview / gridview you want to make , i will create

[userappinventor]

Thanks.
I'm just using the basic listview provided by AppInventor.

[White_Tiger]

okey

[userappinventor]

Can I ask if you have completed the extension?

[Marwan_Hamdi]

Thank you so much, now i can change the conponent notifier to monospace

[gordonlu310]

You can't change the font typeface of the Notifier with this extension (as of now). I'll work on that.