How to use custom font in Xamarin.Android?

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In Android device or emulator, there will be a set of fonts available as system fonts. The list of fonts can be obtained by using this API AvailableFonts

Questions:

How to display a TextView with the fonts available in the System fonts?
How to use a custom font (like Arial black)?
How to make a custom font available as system font? (that is, how to use the custom font to display a TextView without the need to add the font in the application resource)

MShah · Accepted Answer · 2025-04-29 08:30:22Z

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To set default font for the entire app, you can simply do that by making it the first font you add when calling .ConfigureFonts in your MauiProgram, e.g.:

var builder = MauiApp.CreateBuilder();

builder
    .UseMauiApp<App>()
        .ConfigureFonts(fonts =>
        {
            fonts.AddFont("Lato-Regular.ttf", "LatoRegular");
            fonts.AddFont("Lato-Bold.ttf", "LatoBold");
        });

LatoRegular is now the default font.

Please remember to remove the FontFamily property in Styles.xaml for all controls that must use the default font.

answered Apr 29 at 8:30

MShah

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