How to change navigation drawer font?

Question

I want to use my own font for navigation drawer in android.I use the library comes with android studio according to this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23632492/4393226. But I don't know how to change the font and make it RTL. I searched a lot and I found how to make the drawer RTL. I use this code:

getWindow().getDecorView().setLayoutDirection(View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL);

and Android - Is Navigation Drawer from right hand side possible?

But as you know this only works in API 17 and above. Please help! How to change the menu font? How to make the layout RTL in right way?!

Edited: My font "TTF" file is in assets/fonts and I know how to set it for a textview using java, but I don't know how to set it to navigation drawer menu.

Answer 1

I found the answer: First create this class in your project:

import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.text.style.TypefaceSpan;

public class CustomTypefaceSpan extends TypefaceSpan {

    private final Typeface newType;

    public CustomTypefaceSpan(String family, Typeface type) {
        super(family);
        newType = type;
    }

    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
        applyCustomTypeFace(ds, newType);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateMeasureState(TextPaint paint) {
        applyCustomTypeFace(paint, newType);
    }

    private static void applyCustomTypeFace(Paint paint, Typeface tf) {
        int oldStyle;
        Typeface old = paint.getTypeface();
        if (old == null) {
            oldStyle = 0;
        } else {
            oldStyle = old.getStyle();
        }

        int fake = oldStyle & ~tf.getStyle();
        if ((fake & Typeface.BOLD) != 0) {
            paint.setFakeBoldText(true);
        }

        if ((fake & Typeface.ITALIC) != 0) {
            paint.setTextSkewX(-0.25f);
        }

        paint.setTypeface(tf);
    }
}

Then add this method to your activity you want to change the font of navigation drawer menu:

private void applyFontToMenuItem(MenuItem mi) {
        Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "ds_digi_b.TTF");
        SpannableString mNewTitle = new SpannableString(mi.getTitle());
        mNewTitle.setSpan(new CustomTypefaceSpan("" , font), 0 , mNewTitle.length(),  Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
        mi.setTitle(mNewTitle);
}

and then add call the method you just added in your activity:

navView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navView);
Menu m = navView.getMenu();
for (int i=0;i<m.size();i++) {
    MenuItem mi = m.getItem(i);

    //for aapplying a font to subMenu ...
    SubMenu subMenu = mi.getSubMenu();
    if (subMenu!=null && subMenu.size() >0 ) {
        for (int j=0; j <subMenu.size();j++) {
            MenuItem subMenuItem = subMenu.getItem(j);
            applyFontToMenuItem(subMenuItem);
        }
    }

    //the method we have create in activity
    applyFontToMenuItem(mi);
}