Show Hindi font (custom font) text in Android

In your custom apps you will most probably want to use your own font. This post will show you how you can do so. This is a simple example... create a folder in the root of your project called assets/fonts/ then paste the TTF font file (in this case Devanagri.TTF). Then, if you want to apply that font to, say a TextView, do the following

TextView tv = (TextView ) findViewById(R.id.textView);
Typeface face=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"fonts/hindi.ttf");
tv.setTypeface(face);
tv.setText("Hindi font");