Agreed. We already have icon placement in TextEdit controls via the drawableLeft, etc. attributes. And if your app doesn't have a theme font of some sort you ar

Agreed. We already have icon placement in TextEdit controls via the drawableLeft, etc. attributes. And if your app doesn't have a theme font of some sort you are better off using the Roboto system one so you don't look strange for no reason. I guess the only real use is for the icon font, but people were doing that already and it's best practice to generate one with just the symbols you need.