Accessing a font under assets folder from XML file

Question

I am trying to do a application-wide font change and creating a style file to do so. In this file (below) I just want to change typeface value of TextAppearance style of Android.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="NightRiderFont" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance">
        <item name="android:typeface"> /***help need here***/ </item>
    </style>
</resources>

However font is in "assets/fonts/". How can I access this font, so I can use that style as a theme to get rid of changing all TextViews by hand programatically.

As summary: How can I access 'a file from assets folder' in XML?

Answer 1

//accessing font file in code,

Typeface type = Typeface.createFromAsset(getResources().getAssets(),"fonts/arial.ttf");
textView.setTypeface(type);//assign typeface to textview

//in assets folder->fonts(foldername)->arial.ttf(font file name)