[Android-development] incorrect font in Qt/QML app on OnePlus Android device

[Aleix Pol]

Hi Dirk,
It looks like a problem in Qt:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-69494

Seems like Qt chokes on the font that OnePlus provides by default.
I see there's other issues with fonts related to OnePlus:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47165

Aleix


On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:51 PM Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> This is a problem we've had for quite a while. I finally broke down and
> bought a used OnePlus 6 phone in order to play with it myself.
> And I'm completely stuck.
>
> Here's the background. Subsurface-mobile is a Qt/QML application that
> provides a dive log on Android (and iOS).
> It uses the default font (which on Android is Roboto), but I also tried
> various ways of setting a different font, none of which appear to have any
> impact.
>
> On all other Android devices that I have personally tried this on (and
> that thousands of users use it on) we get the correct font. But not on this
> one.
>
> I have asked on the OnePlus forum about this (
> https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/developer-question-third-party-app-shows-wrong-font.1105627/)
> but I'm wondering if other Qt/Android developers have made similar
> experiences with people running their apps on OnePlus devices.
>
> In the log I see two things that seem relevant:
>
> First, just as the app starts, I get an odd warning:
>
> 09-19 11:34:28.054  2681 28439 I FontsPackageChangeOp: Package
> org.subsurfacedivelog.mobile has no metadata
>
> I don't see that same warning when running the app on my other Android
> devices where I get the correct font.
>
> Second, the app seems to THINK that it gets the correct font:
>
> 09-19 11:36:01.671 28446 28538 D
> /android/subsurface/qt-models/messagehandlermodel.cpp: INFO: Detected
> OnePlus device; Qt reports default font is "Roboto"
>
> Yet this is how things look
>
>
> (and yes, the layout is completely messed up as well - I'm suspecting that
> the incorrect font has something to do with that and am investigating that
> separately)
>
> In case you are wondering, this is how it SHOULD look:
>
>
> Thanks for any help that you can give.
>
> /D
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