How to Use Font Awesome Icons in Android Application
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In this article, I am going to show how to use the FontAwesome icons and symbols in native android application. To use font awesome icons in android application is very easy; just we place font code instead of text font. FontAwesome icons can be used using android TextView, Button View, etc. means fontawesome icons can be used like normal font and link it to fontawesome TTF file using java code.
Let’s start by creating new android project to use FontAwesome icon package in android application and game with the following information.
Application Name: FontAwesome Icons in Android Application
Company Domain: com.viralandroid
Package Name: viralandroid.com.fontawesomeiconsinandroidapplication
First thing you have to do is to download font awesome font from font awesome official site and import TTF file in android project assets folder. To download the font awesome go to FontAwesome website and click Download Button.
After downloading FontAwesome, unzip the file, there you will see many files and folders. We just need fontawesome-webfont.ttf which is located inside font’s folder.
Then, Go to android studio or any other development environment you have used and create an assets folder inside app/src/main/ directory and paste/place fontawesome-webfont.ttf file inside assets folder which will look like screenshot given below.
To place font awesome icons code in android strings.xml file, give a name like normal strings and paste font awesome cheatsheet icons code like below.
res/values/strings.xml
To get icons code click here.
In android layout file, add TextViews, Buttons, etc. to place font awesome icons wherever you want. Sample XML layouts file of android application looks like this.
res/layout/activity_main.xml
Your layout is ready; it’s time to work in our java activity file to make working by font awesome fonts. Open your java activity file i.e. MainActivity.java file and place little bit code in onCreate method. MainActivity.java file will looks like below.
src/MainActivity.java
You have done all things. Now, run your How to Use Font Awesome Icons in Android Application which will look like output given below.
Output:
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Android User Interface (UI) Design Tutorial
In this article, I am going to show how to use the FontAwesome icons and symbols in native android application. To use font awesome icons in android application is very easy; just we place font code instead of text font. FontAwesome icons can be used using android TextView, Button View, etc. means fontawesome icons can be used like normal font and link it to fontawesome TTF file using java code.
Create a New Android Project
Let’s start by creating new android project to use FontAwesome icon package in android application and game with the following information.
Application Name: FontAwesome Icons in Android Application
Company Domain: com.viralandroid
Package Name: viralandroid.com.fontawesomeiconsinandroidapplication
Download and Import FontAwesome Font File
First thing you have to do is to download font awesome font from font awesome official site and import TTF file in android project assets folder. To download the font awesome go to FontAwesome website and click Download Button.
After downloading FontAwesome, unzip the file, there you will see many files and folders. We just need fontawesome-webfont.ttf which is located inside font’s folder.
Then, Go to android studio or any other development environment you have used and create an assets folder inside app/src/main/ directory and paste/place fontawesome-webfont.ttf file inside assets folder which will look like screenshot given below.
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| Android Studio Assets Folder Directory |
Place FontAwesome Icons Code in Strings.xml File
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| Font Awesome Icons |
To place font awesome icons code in android strings.xml file, give a name like normal strings and paste font awesome cheatsheet icons code like below.
res/values/strings.xml
To get icons code click here.
Insert FontAwesome Icons in Layouts File
In android layout file, add TextViews, Buttons, etc. to place font awesome icons wherever you want. Sample XML layouts file of android application looks like this.
res/layout/activity_main.xml
Your layout is ready; it’s time to work in our java activity file to make working by font awesome fonts. Open your java activity file i.e. MainActivity.java file and place little bit code in onCreate method. MainActivity.java file will looks like below.
src/MainActivity.java
You have done all things. Now, run your How to Use Font Awesome Icons in Android Application which will look like output given below.
Output:
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| Font Awesome Icons in Android |