How would one go about adding resources like fonts...

# amper

[Tom Truyen]

How would one go about adding resources like fonts using Amper? I have created a resources/font directory but I can't seem to find the Font. Looking online I see some people that modify the sourceSets in gradle. Is this something that also needs to be done in Amper?

[Anton Mefodichev]

cc @Alexander Tsarev

[Tom Truyen]

Update:

I also tried by renaming it to res and composeResources and neither seems to work. I can get Res.font in my app but the generated font object is empty 🤔

[Anton Mefodichev]

@Tom Truyen, can you please clarify, do you try to use resources in a Gradle-based project?

[Tom Truyen]

It is an Amper project with gradle. So I have a settings.gradle.kts and module.yaml for the modules. The issue is that when I try to add a font like in the screenshot above, the Res.font object that is generated has an empty font object

[Tom Truyen]

@Anton Mefodichev A little more info maybe to clarify:

I would expect Res.font to have an entry for my custom font, but it is empty

I have attached both a screenshot for the generated Res.kt and the file structure that I currently have

[Tom Truyen]

I think my layout should be correct if I look at: https://github.com/JetBrains/amper/blob/release/0.4/docs/Documentation.md#resources

[Tom Truyen]

@amakeev Do you maybe have any insights on this? It is becoming a blocker for me right now

[Anton Mefodichev]

@Tom Truyen, can you please provide your reproducer project? Thank you in advance!

[Tom Truyen]

@Anton Mefodichev
This is the exact project that I am working on which is having the issue:
https://github.com/TomTruyen/pomodor-timer-compose-multiplatform

[Anton Mefodichev]

@Tom Truyen, I just have seen your comment here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/AMPER-427/Using-composite.-components.-resources-the-Res-class-was-generated-but-there-was-no-string-field
It looks we should wait for the dev-team reply here. 🤔

[Tom Truyen]

That is unfortunate. The ticket has been open for 5 months already, is there an alternative way of using fonts for now? like maybe by loading the font over the internet via some CDN?