Cannot see "font" resource type in Android studio

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AADProgramming picture AADProgramming · Apr 1, 2017 · Viewed 14k times · Source

I was going through the new Android O features, and one of the new thing is now app can add fonts directly into res folder. As per the android documentation for working with fonts, one of the 1st step is to create a new resource type named "font" using Right-click the res folder and go to New > Android resource directory.

But I could not see "font" option available for resource type in the drop down in android studio.

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I am not able to see "font" option in the drop down, and hence I am unable to create font android resource directory.

My Android studio details:

Android Studio 2.3 Build #AI-162.3764568, built on February 24, 2017 JRE: 1.8.0_112-release-b06 x86_64 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o

Answer

Jacobski picture Jacobski · Dec 15, 2017

One thing I noticed is that the drop down is actually scrollable but because the scrollbar is quite dark, others might not notice it. I can't find "font" at first until I scrolled it downwards.

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