Libfont is a project mainly written in C and C++, based on the View license.
A small library to render text in OpenGL/OpenGL ES using freetype.
This library aims to provide an easy way to render text on Android OpenGL ES (or any other OpenGL/ES capable device).
The samples/ directory contains sample code. It currently has sample for SDL and Android.
Note that the sample uses NDK's Native Activity. Therefore, it requires a device (or the emulator) running Android 2.3. But the code can be ported to work with the standard Java/JNI glue that was required for earlier android versions
This is how the android demo should look :
.. image:: http://fhtagn.net/images/libfont/android-screen.png
A font is loaded from a .ttf file using freetype and a font atlas (one big texture containing all the font glyphs) is created. The font altas creation is a one-time initialization process.
When a string is rendered, the font atlas texture is bound and tex coords are used to render each glyph. This mean that once the font atlas for a particular font is loaded, rendering of arbitrary string is quite fast (at least way faster than using freetype to render to texture and then use the texture to draw the text).
The code is under a BSD license, see the LICENSE file. The font provided with the sample comes from the "Liberation font" project[1]. It is licensed under the GPLv2 license with some exceptions (see FONT-LICENSE.txt) [1] https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/