Foundry: The missing typekit for Android

NOTE: Currently a work in progress! Don't even compile very well yet as I'm adapting this project!

Tired of manually setting the typefaces of all your views and cluttering your logic with presentation code? Foundry has your back.

Foundry lets you style the typefaces of your views in your XML layout files and styles.

Foundry currently supports ttf fonts only, although you may use a different extension if required.

You can try out the sample application:

Using Foundry

Note: Until Foundry is released on Maven Central, you will need to build the library yourself in order to use it in your own projects. See Building Foundry: Install for more information.

1. Add Foundry as a Dependency

dependencies {
	compile 'com.viewsforandroid.foundry:1.0.0'
}

2. Add Typefaces to your Project

Place your custom ttf fonts in your assets directory.

3. Use Foundry as your LayoutInflater

You can either manually create a FoundryLayoutInflater as required, or you can use Foundry as your default inflater views by adding the following code to your Activity classes:

private LayoutInflater foundryLayoutInflater;

@Override
public Object getSystemService(final String name) {
	if (Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE.equals(name)) {
		return getFoundryLayoutInflater();
	}
	return super.getSystemService(name);
}

private LayoutInflater getFoundryLayoutInflater() {
	if (foundryLayoutInflater == null) {
		foundryLayoutInflater = new FoundryLayoutInflater(this, new FoundryFoundry(getAssets()))
	}
	return foundryLayoutInflater;
}

4. Apply Foundry to your Layouts

Add the following to the root view in your layout file:

xmlns:foundry="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Add foundry:typeface attributes to your views:

<TextView
	android:layout_width="wrap_content"
	android:layout_height="wrap_content"
	android:text="Sample Text"
	foundry:typeface="font_name"/>

The font_name should match the name of your font file without the .ttf extension.

Note: you can leverage Foundry in your styles by using the typeface attribute without any prefix, e.g:

<resources>
	<style name="StyledByFoundry">
		<item name="typeface">font_name</item>
	</style>
</resources>

Foundry cannot be used inside text styles that are applied using android:textAppearance.

Building Foundry

Requirements:

• JDK 7

Compile

Builds Foundry, the sample app and runs unit tests.

$ ./gradlew clean assemble

TODO

• Restore tests with Robolectric as Joseph Earl was using Maven.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Joseph Earl for starting writing this beautiful piece of code.

License

Copyright 2014 Joseph Earl.
Copyright 2014 Aldo Borrero.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
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