Is there a way to apply fonts to Android using .NET MAUI Canvas.Font?

Question

I created a character using graphic view during the user interface. So I used Canvas.Font, and the installed font was applied well in Windows.
But on Android, the font is not applied.
Is there a way to set up a font on Android in canvas without using Label's FontFamily? I'm not going to use Skisharp.

 public void Draw(ICanvas canvas, RectF dirtyRect)
        {

            canvas.FontColor = GetColor(TextColor);     //Font Color
            canvas.FontSize = GetFontSize(canvas);      //Font Size 
           
            canvas.Font = new Font(FontFaceType,SelectFontWeight.FontWeight(FontWeights));


            //배경색 사용을 하면은?
            if (IsBackColor)
            {
                SolidPaint solidPaint = new SolidPaint(GetColor(BackColor));
                RectF solidRectangle = new RectF(0, 0, Width, Height);
                canvas.SetFillPaint(solidPaint, solidRectangle);
                canvas.FillRoundedRectangle(solidRectangle, 0);
            }

            //Draw Text!

            TextString = TextString.Replace("|", "\r\n");

            canvas.DrawString(TextString, Xpoint, Ypoint, Width, Height, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment);

         

        }

Answer 1

Hello,

After my testing, you could refer to the following steps to get your font file to work on Android.

Step 1: Add and register a font file called MyFont by this document: Fonts - Register fonts.

fonts.AddFont("MyFont.ttf", "MyFont");

Step 2: In the Draw method, when creating a font object for the Android platform, you need to include the suffix to take effect:

#if WINDOWS 
            canvas.Font = new Font(FontFaceType,SelectFontWeight.FontWeight(FontWeights));
#elif ANDROID
            canvas.Font = new Font("MyFont.ttf", 18);
#endif

Best Regards,

Alec Liu.

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