Typeface.ITALIC not working on Galaxy Note 2

Question

I'm making an app where sometimes I want to change the font of a textview to italics, depending on the data to show. On my Galaxy Nexus, it's simply a case of ``` textView.setTypeface(font, iWantItalics ? Typeface.ITALIC : Typeface.NORMAL); ``` and it works beautifully. The problem is that I've got a new Galaxy Note II to test and... nope, no italics. Reading Samsung devices supporting setTypeface(Typeface.Italic)? I get the impression that it's a bug on the Note's Android build, so the Roboto font simply has no italics. I've tried every advice on that thread and others similar (`Typeface.defaultFromStyle(Typeface.ITALIC)`, `Typeface.create(null, Typeface.ITALIC)`, etc.) with no luck. My problem is that the workaround the guy from that thread used was copying the Roboto TTF in the `assets` directory and creating the font from there but what about people with another default font in their phones? I don't want to force Roboto on them or, even worse, to have that other font when the type…

Accepted Answer

As a workaround for this bug, you can set the text italic this way (which seems to work on the broken Samsung devices):

```
textView.setText(setTextStyleItalic(textView.getText());
```

and you need this method:

```
public static CharSequence setTextStyleItalic(CharSequence text) {
    final StyleSpan style = new StyleSpan(Typeface.ITALIC);
    final SpannableString str = new SpannableString(text);
    str.setSpan(style, 0, text.length(), 0);
    return str;
}
```

Typeface.ITALIC not working on Galaxy Note 2

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