Adding fonts to an OS is ancient, so it is baffling to me to have such trouble finding any resources on how to add my fonts to Android. How many fundamentals do they have to turn decades backward?

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
    13·
    3 天前

    I think the main reason is Google wants to provide a predictable environment for the developers where not too many things can be changed so it doesn’t visually break apps. Because for big corps really, really want their branding to be perfect, can’t be caught with a screenshot of their app in Comic Sans.

    You used to be able to install some pretty sick theme packs but over time everyone started shipping apps with its own hardcoded themes and theme libraries such that it looks identical between devices, so now we’re stuck with whatever Google says is how it should look.

    Back when I was a developer I had to turn off my theme for every demo because the clients would keep focusing on that and not their fucking app, and keep complaining it clashed so hard with their brand colors. Which I’m sure is part of why the stock theme now is so flat and neutral vs the Holo/Honeycomb days.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      42·
      3 天前

      Well, several of my devices are rooted, one has Cyanogen one has Lineage and I’m working on a few others to see what I can put on there. I’m using Iconeration to make custom icon collections for my screens the way they appeal to me.

      Everyone is obsessed with control. Fuck that and fuck them. Thank goodness the EU is hammering down on manufacturers and protecting consumer rights. That ends up propagating to the U.S.A. just because of inertia and it’s not worth making things multiple ways. But it would never happen here on its own because these companies write our laws. It’s good there’s still countries where the peoples’ liberties are protected. But I digress.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        81·
        3 天前

        “Everyone is obsessed with control,” says person trying to install custom fonts.

        Sorry, I just thought the irony was funny. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t an option to do this, what have you tried so far? And what device do you have exactly?

        • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          21·
          3 天前

          Well, what I obviously meant is obsessed with controlling others and others’ behavior, possessions and lives.

      • n2burns@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        3 天前

        one has Cyanogen

        You are running a device that is nearly a decade without updates?