Hi, the default Roboto font is boring me out of my mind and I’d like to change it.

In the past, I’ve done so by just replacing the font file in the OS, which worked well, but meant that it would reset after every OS update.
I’m considering scripting that with ADB to make it less of a pain, but figured I should ask, if there’s a better way.

I’m on LineageOS which has a font styling system, but it only applies to the OS, not the user-installed apps…

  • @Hiro8811English
    2•1 year ago

    Have you tried with root or are you trying to avoid that?

    • EpheraOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      From a security perspective, I’m not worried about root permissions, so long as I don’t have to use proprietary or sketchy apps in combination with it.

      I have to admit, though, that I’m a bit out of the loop what the current strategies for managing root permissions are and the last time I used it, Google had successfully made it enough of a PitA and there were hardly apps that made use of root, so my intuition is that using ADB is just easier.

      I would be using ADB with root access, though, of course…

      • @Hiro8811English
        2•1 year ago

        I use magisk it’s open source, systemless, has option to hide root from other apps and has option to update the boot image after an OS update. You can get modules from the magisk repo. The app I use are viper4android and iconify. There are more but they don’t come to mind, a must have is bootloop saver. There’s also shizuku that is accepted by some of these apps but I haven’t really checked it out. It also depends on OS and if you can unlock bootloader

        • EpheraOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Oh wow, thanks a lot. Somehow I had remembered Magisk as proprietary, so never really looked much into it. There does seem to be relatively much of an ecosystem there.

          I’m rather fed up with Android’s numerous arbitrary limitations. Eventually, I’d like to jump over to Linux phones and invest my time into building out that ecosystem, rather than working against Google’s bullshit. But yeah, it might take a while still, before that’s truly viable for me, so this may help tide me over…

          • @Hiro8811English
            1•1 year ago

            I do understand why you might want to go over to Linux phones but as they are now it’s not worth it.
            You can can flash another ROM such as Lineage OS with root and outmatch any Linux phone. There’s also termux if you want a terminal emulator and android has a shitlload of apps, some worse some better, but you have them. Don’t get me wrong Linux is great but Android has too many advantages in the mobile space. Anyway that’s just my opinion