How to retrieve a list of available/installed fonts in android?

In Java I would do something like:

java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment ge = 
                      java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
Font[] fonts = ge.getAllFonts(); 

is there an Android equivalent?

Taken from Mark Murphy's answer on the Android Developers mailing list:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Typeface.html

There are only three fonts: normal (Droid Sans), serif (Droid Serif), and monospace (Droid Sans Mono).

While there may be additional fonts buried in WebKit somewhere, they appear to be inaccessible to developers outside of WebKit. :-(

The only other fonts are any TrueType ones you bundle with your application.

Edit: Roboto is a new font which came in with Android 4.0. You can use this library project to use it in all versions back to API level 4 https://github.com/mcalliph/roboto-text-view

Regarding the actual question, here is a way to create a list of all available fonts installed:

String path = "/system/fonts";
File file = new File(path);
File ff[] = file.listFiles();

Array ff[] will contain all the font files.

There are only 3 fonts available as part of android; normal (Droid Sans), serif (Droid Serif), and monospace (Droid Sans Mono).

Apps can include their own truetype fonts but can't install them for use by other apps.

• http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg44221.html

couple of links about the fonts:

• http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/25/font-android-g1-tech-wire-cx_ew_0926font.html
• http://www.droidfonts.com/droidfonts/about/