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Icon Font Viewer

Quick, simple, small, less-featured font viewer for Android. Aiming to be Android version of Windows Font Preview, except that this app cannot install font to system, that is other app's responsibility.

Features

  • Can be set as default "Open with" app
    • Also include unique file icon for file managers that supports it
  • Uses Android File Chooser, No standalone file selector that requires entire filesystem permission
  • No state saved,
  • Native Android UI, Looks like an app that belongs to your phone instead of those over-beautified alien UI
  • No internet necessary and no user data is collected by the app itself
    • Links shown in this apps opens in browser, which needs internet and those sites might requires some of your data.
  • Small, release version is less than megabytes of storage
    • We uses small amount of dependency and APIs that already available in Android itself, not even AndroidX and Jetpack were much used.
  • Supports from Android 4.4 up to Android 13

Screenshots

Portrait 1Portrait 2

Portrait Screenshots

Support for Icon

X-plore, Showing TTF file icon associated with this app

LandscapeTablet Landscape

Landscape, left is phone, right is tablet

Known Issues

  • Some fonts like Fira Code seems to not being supported by Typecast due to having non-compliant glyf table

Supported type

Any font is supported by Android Typeface class and Typecast library

Dependencies

System Requirements

  • Android 4.4 Kitkat
  • 2MB of storage for installation

Building

Open the project in Android Studio and build

License

MIT License