android - How to use custom font with WebView

Question

Now I want to display some unicode characters and I have used tag: <font face=" Arial">something here</font>. But it seems that WebView can not find the Arial font because I can only see UFO-characters. Do I have to copy arial.ttf to somewhere or how can I use this TrueType font with WebView? Thanks.

Answer 1

loadData didn't work for me either, so I used file:///android_asset in the src path.

It worked with loadDataWithBaseURL!

For this example I changed the CSS to:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'feast';
    src: url('fonts/feasfbrg.ttf');
}

body {font-family: 'feast';}

Then use the assets path as the base url:

loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/",myhtml,"text/html","utf-8",null);