Issue When Using a Custom Font - "Native Typeface Cannot Be Made"

Issue when using a custom font - native typeface cannot be made

The font file is either corrupt or unsupported for some reason. You can drop it on the SD card and load it from file, to make sure it's not a problem with your assets.

RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made when loading font

Android does not support OpenType (OTF), only TrueType (TTF), so your Molot.otf font probably will not work. I wrote both of those blog posts you link to in your opening sentence (the one is a pirated copy of the other), and they do not use Molot.otf.

(BTW, I somewhat repaired the formatting of that post -- AndroidGuys keeps changing WordPress hosts, and so my older posts are terribly broken in terms of formatting).

EDIT: As stated in the comments, Android DOES now support OTF.

RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made or memory leak for custom TextView loading font

Okay, so I finally figured that instantiating a TypeFace object inside a TextView class would cause so much load each time that same TextView is instantiated. This caused my app to lag and resulted to OutOfMemoryException eventually. So what I did was to create a different custom TypeFace class that would call my fonts from the assets so that it instantiates from the TypeFace class and not from the TextView class.

Here's my TypeFaces class:

public class TypeFaces {

    private static final Hashtable<String, Typeface> cache = new Hashtable<String, Typeface>();

    public static Typeface getTypeFace(Context context, String assetPath) {
        synchronized (cache) {
            if (!cache.containsKey(assetPath)) {
                try {
                    Typeface typeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(
                            context.getAssets(), assetPath);
                    cache.put(assetPath, typeFace);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    Log.e("TypeFaces", "Typeface not loaded.");
                    return null;
                }
            }
            return cache.get(assetPath);
        }
    }
}

And the custom TextView class:

public class TextViewHirakaku extends TextView {

    public TextViewHirakaku(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public TextViewHirakaku(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public TextViewHirakaku(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public void setTypeface(Typeface tf, int style) {
        if (style == Typeface.BOLD) {
            super.setTypeface(TypeFaces.getTypeFace(getContext(),
                    "fonts/hirakakupronbold.ttf"));
        } else if (style == Typeface.ITALIC) {
            super.setTypeface(TypeFaces.getTypeFace(getContext(),
                    "fonts/hirakakupronitalic.ttf"));
        } else {
            super.setTypeface(TypeFaces.getTypeFace(getContext(),
                    "fonts/hirakakupron.ttf"));
        }
    }
}

Notice that I'm now calling getTypeFace method from TypeFaces class here.

Custom Font Issue In Android

Android supports only TTF font type not OTF. Check this link

"RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made" when loading font

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