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…

  • EpheraOP
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    111 months 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…

    • @Hiro8811
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      111 months 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