font face as nuti parameter not working

[farfromrefug]

I tried to do something like this:

@font_face:[nuti::font_face];
@mont: @font_face + ' Regular';
@mont_md: @font_face + ' Medium';
@mont_bd: @font_face + ' Bold';
@mont_it: @font_face + ' Medium Italic';

And it is not working. I am sure [nuti::font_face] is correct. If i switch to:

@font_face:'DIN Pro';
@mont: @font_face + ' Regular';
@mont_md: @font_face + ' Medium';
@mont_bd: @font_face + ' Bold';
@mont_it: @font_face + ' Medium Italic';

then it works

[farfromrefug]

That makes me think of a crazy idea. Could we support for system fonts?

[mtehver]

Indeed, font handling assumed static font names, for mostly historical reasons. This should be fixed now in 'develop' branch. Good find.

[mtehver]

Regarding about system fonts, I believe this is really platform-dependent and not possible on Android, which is the main target.

[farfromrefug]

@mtehver what about this https://developer.android.com/ndk/reference/group/font ? (though starting at api 29 :s)

[mtehver]

@farfromrefug Interesting, did not know about this. But API 29 is way too restricting for minimum requirement, we need to support Android 4.x.

[farfromrefug]

@mtehver 100% agree with you! was worth mentioning as we discovered this for Nativescript runtime