Font setting is not using the phone's selected font for articles

[sinfullad]

• [✓] I use the latest GitHub release of the app.

Describe the bug Font setting is not using the font of the phone to show the article, but the default Android font.

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Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: [Samsung A33 5G]
• OS: [Android 12, OneUI 4.1]

Additional context I'm using the latest debug build that improved the setting page.

[BrightDV]

Sadly, this is a limitation on Flutter's side. It uses the Roboto font by default (which is often used on Android devices), not the system's font.

Related: flutter/flutter#48381.

[sinfullad]

Sadly, this is a limitation on Flutter's side. It uses the Roboto font by default (which is often used on Android devices), not the system's font.

Related: flutter/flutter#48381.

That's a shame, I don't know much about Flutter, it can't detect what font the system is using nor the type of fonts that the phone has in storage?

Maybe you can add a list of fonts to customize instead?

After looking around a bit, maybe you can add old fonts that F1 used to use for their TV graphics like: Benton Sans 2015-2017 DIN 1451 from 2010-2014 Frutiger 55 from 2004-2009 Futura from 1994-2003

Could be potential idea for themes too if you want to

[BrightDV]

That's a shame, I don't know much about Flutter, it can't detect what font the system is using nor the type of fonts that the phone has in storage?

I did some research and found a workaround to add it but it is not very convenient and it needs a lot of work to implement it.

Maybe you can add a list of fonts to customize instead?

After looking around a bit, maybe you can add old fonts that F1 used to use for their TV graphics like: Benton Sans 2015-2017 DIN 1451 from 2010-2014 Frutiger 55 from 2004-2009 Futura from 1994-2003

Could be potential idea for themes too if you

I don't think this is a needed feature right now given the amount of time required to add it, and now I plan to add more widgets of the articles and improve the hall of fame. Maybe I could add some retro themes with the old fonts, I will think about it... Also, where did you find these fonts?

[sinfullad]

Maybe I could add some retro themes with the old fonts, I will think about it... Also, where did you find these fonts?

This is the best I can find with some quick searches 😅 https://gprejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6159 https://github.com/ktomov/old-fonts-in-f1

[BrightDV]

Finally, I added the Titilium-Web font (which is used by the official website in the articles)(382234f).
So now, you can choose between Android's default (Roboto), the official one and Titilium.
If needed, I can also add some older font, however, this setting is applied for the articles' font to improve readability.