Issue when using a custom font - "native typeface cannot be made"

Solution 1:

My problem was incorrect placement of the assets folder.

When using Android Studio the assets folder should be inside of the source sets e.g.

src/main/assets/

Found in this answer

Solution 2:

The font file is either corrupt or unsupported for some reason. You can drop it on the SD card and load it from file, to make sure it's not a problem with your assets.

Solution 3:

There are basically 4 things that can cause this:

1. You use the wrong extension
2. You have to place the fonts in the assets folder and not inside assets/fonts/
3. You misspelled the fonts
4. The fonts need to be lowercase (in my case the solution was to rename MyFont.ttf to myfont.ttf, strange)

Solution 4:

Double check the extension isn't in caps, ie. suralist_font.TTF

Fonts often come seem to come that way and it might be overlooked.

Solution 5:

I had this same problem, I created mine in assets>fonts>whatever.ttf and was getting the same error. I added the fonts extension (fonts/whatever.ttf) and it fixed the problem in every case.

 holder.tv_SuraName   =(TextView)convertView.findViewById(R.id.Start_Name);
 holder.tv_SuraName.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(mContext.getAssets(),    "fonts/suralist_font.ttf"));