How to use icons and symbols from Font Awesome on Native Android Application

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I m trying to use Font Awesome on my application  I was able to integrate the font using Typeface createFromAsset    but I also want to use the icons provided by this font  but so far I haven t been able to do that    This particular font contains icons inside the Unicode Private Use Area  PUA   for things like media player controls  file system access  arrows  etc   Has anybody used fonts that contain icons and symbols on Android  is this possible at all

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Maybe too late but I had the same need so I've published this https://github.com/liltof/font-awsome-for-android It's an android ready xml version of font awesome usable just like Keith Corwin said

Hope it will help others.

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One of the libraries that I use for Font Awesome is this   https   github com Bearded-Hen Android-Bootstrap  Specifically    https   github com Bearded-Hen Android-Bootstrap wiki Font-Awesome-Text  The documentation is easy to understand    First  add the needed dependencies in the build gradle   dependencies       compile  com beardedhen androidbootstrap 1 2 3      Secondly  you can add this in your XML    lt com beardedhen androidbootstrap FontAwesomeText     android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      fontawesometext fa icon  fa-github      android layout margin  10dp       android textSize  32sp    gt    but make sure you add this in your root layout if you want to use above code example        xmlns fontawesometext  http   schemas android com apk res-auto

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I made this helper class in C   Xamarin  to programmatically set the text property  It which works pretty well for me   internal static class FontAwesomeManager       private static readonly Typeface AwesomeFont   Typeface CreateFromAsset App Application Context Assets   FontAwesome ttf         private static readonly Dictionary lt FontAwesomeIcon  string gt  IconMap   new Dictionary lt FontAwesomeIcon  string gt                 FontAwesomeIcon Bars    uf0c9             FontAwesomeIcon Calendar    uf073             FontAwesomeIcon Child    uf1ae             FontAwesomeIcon Cog    uf013             FontAwesomeIcon Eye    uf06e             FontAwesomeIcon Filter    uf0b0             FontAwesomeIcon Link    uf0c1             FontAwesomeIcon ListOrderedList    uf0cb             FontAwesomeIcon PencilSquareOutline    uf044             FontAwesomeIcon Picture    uf03e             FontAwesomeIcon PlayCircleOutline    uf01d             FontAwesomeIcon SignOut    uf08b             FontAwesomeIcon Sliders    uf1de               public static void Awesomify this TextView view  FontAwesomeIcon icon                var iconString   IconMap icon            view Text   iconString          view SetTypeface AwesomeFont  TypefaceStyle Normal            enum FontAwesomeIcon       Bars      Calendar      Child      Cog      Eye      Filter      Link      ListOrderedList      PencilSquareOutline      Picture      PlayCircleOutline      SignOut      Sliders     Should be easy enough to convert to Java  I think  Hope it helps someone

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In case you only need a few font awesome icons  you can also use http   fa2png io to generate normal pixel images  But if you add new icons buttons regularly I d recommend the  ttf version as its more flexible

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Font Awesome seems to be working fine for me in my android app   I did the following    Copied fontawesome-webfont ttf into my assests folder Found the character entities for icons I wanted  using this page  http   fortawesome github io Font-Awesome cheatsheet  Created an entry in strings xml for each icon   Eg for a heart    lt string name  icon heart  gt  amp  xf004  lt  string gt   Referenced said entry in the view of my xml layout     lt Button      android id    id like       style   android attr buttonStyleSmall                android text   string icon heart    gt   Loaded the font in my onCreate method and set it for the appropriate Views   Typeface font   Typeface createFromAsset  getAssets     fontawesome-webfont ttf         Button button    Button findViewById  R id like    button setTypeface font

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There s another nice solution which you can use in your layout xml files directly and does not require to use setTypeface   It is Joan Zapata s Iconify  You can read here what s new in Iconify v2  It includes 9 different font libraries which you can simply use by adding dependencies to your build gradle file   In the layout xml files it s possible to choose between these widgets   com joanzapata iconify widget IconTextview com joanzapata iconify widget IconButton com joanzapata iconify widget IconToggleButton

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Try IcoMoon  http   icomoon io   Pick the icons you want Assign characters to each icon Download the font   Say  you picked the play icon  assigned the letter  P  to it  and downloaded the file icomoon ttf to your asset folder  This is how you show the icon   xml    lt TextView   android layout width  wrap content    android layout height  wrap content    android textSize  48sp    android text  P    gt    java   Typeface typeface   Typeface createFromAsset getAssets     icomoon ttf    textView setTypeface typeface     I ve given a talk on making beautiful Android apps  which includes explanation on using icon fonts  plus adding gradients to make the icons even prettier   http   www sqisland com talks beautiful-android  The icon font explanation starts at slide 34  http   www sqisland com talks beautiful-android  34

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The FontView library lets you use normal unicode font characters as icons graphics in your app  It can load the font via assets or a network location   The benefit of this library is that   1 - it takes care of remote resources for you 2 - scales the font size in dynamically sized views 3 - allows the font to easily be styled    https   github com shellum fontView  Example   Layout    lt com finalhack fontview FontView         android id    id someActionIcon          android layout width  80dp          android layout height  80dp    gt    Java   fontView setupFont  fonts font ttf   character  FontView ImageType CIRCLE   fontView addForegroundColor Color RED   fontView addBackgroundColor Color WHITE

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If you want programmatic setText without add string to string xml  see its hexadecimal code here   http   fortawesome github io Font-Awesome cheatsheet   replace  amp  xf066  to 0xf066   Typeface typeface   Typeface createFromAsset getAssets     fontawesome-webfont ttf        textView setTypeface typeface       textView setText new String new char   0xf006

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Initially create asset folder and copy the fontawesome icon   ttf   How to create asset folder      app-- right Click  -- new-- folder --  asset folder   next step download how to download  ttf file       click here--  and click download button after download extract and open web fonts  finally choose true text style ttf paste asset folder   how to design xml and java file in android       app-- res-- values   string xml   resources     string name  calander font   gt  amp  xf073   lt string resources   this example of one font more Unicode click here  Activity main xml    lt TextView         android layout width  30dp          android layout height  30dp          android id    id calander view   gt    MainActivity java  calander tv    TextView findViewById R id calander view    Typeface typeface   Typeface createFromAsset getAssets     fonts fa-solid-900 ttf    calander tv setTypeface typeface   calander tv setText R string calander font     Output   Output image

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If someone wonders how to add it programmitcally you gotta do it this way      button info setText R string icon heart       button info append   Hallo       lt  lt --- This is the tricky part

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As above is great example and works great   Typeface font   Typeface createFromAsset getAssets     fontawesome-webfont ttf      Button button    Button findViewById  R id like    button setTypeface font     BUT    this will work if string inside button you set from xml     lt string name  icon heart  gt  amp  xf004  lt  string gt  button setText getString R string icon heart      If you need to add it dynamically can use this   String iconHeart     amp  xf004    String valHexStr   iconHeart replace   amp  x       replace           long valLong   Long parseLong valHexStr 16   button setText  char  valLong

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There is small and useful library designed for this purposes   dependencies       compile  com shamanland fonticon 0 1 9      Get demo on Google Play     You can easily add font-based icon in your layout    lt com shamanland fonticon FontIconView     android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android text   string ic android      android textSize   dimen icon size      android textColor   color icon color        gt    You can inflate font-icon as Drawable from xml    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt font-icon     xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res-auto      android text   string ic android      android textSize   dimen big icon size      android textColor   color green 170        gt    Java code   Drawable icon   FontIconDrawable inflate getResources    R xml ic android     Links    Project page Github repo

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I m a bit late to the party but I wrote a custom view that let s you do this  by default it s set to entypo  but you can modify it to use any iconfont  check it out here  github com MarsVard IconView     edit the library is old and not supported anymore     new one here https   github com MarsVard IonIconView

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As all answers are great but I didn t want to use a library and each solution with just one line java code made my Activities and Fragments very messy  So I over wrote the TextView class as follows   public class FontAwesomeTextView extends TextView   private static final String TAG    TextViewFontAwesome   public FontAwesomeTextView Context context        super context       init       public FontAwesomeTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs        super context  attrs       init       public FontAwesomeTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyleAttr        super context  attrs  defStyleAttr       init        TargetApi Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP  public FontAwesomeTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyleAttr  int defStyleRes        super context  attrs  defStyleAttr  defStyleRes       init       private void setCustomFont Context ctx  AttributeSet attrs        TypedArray a   ctx obtainStyledAttributes attrs  R styleable TextViewPlus       String customFont   a getString R styleable TextViewPlus customFont       setCustomFont ctx  customFont       a recycle       private void init         if   isInEditMode              Typeface tf   Typeface createFromAsset getContext   getAssets     fontawesome-webfont ttf            setTypeface tf            public boolean setCustomFont Context ctx  String asset        Typeface typeface   null      try           typeface   Typeface createFromAsset ctx getAssets    asset         catch  Exception e            Log e TAG   Unable to load typeface    e getMessage             return false             setTypeface typeface       return true        what you should do is copy the font ttf file into assets folder  And use this cheat sheet for finding each icons string   hope this helps

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