How to set font weight as light, regular in Android

Question

I have 3 text views. I need to set their weight as Light, Regular and Condensed. Can someone help me on how to achieve this in Android?

Answer 1

Use android:textStyle on a TextView to set the text style like bold, italic or normal.

Here is an example of a TextView with a bold text style:

<TextView
  android:id="@+id/hello_world"
  android:text="hello world"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:textStyle="bold"/>

If you want to use light or condensed, you will have to change your font. You can do it like this:

android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"

For more information about fonts, please also look at the following answer Valid values for android:fontFamily and what they map to?