Using FontAwsome icons in Android

FontAwsome is providing a lot of standard assets which can be used along with TextView. The real power of these assets is to apply text properties ( color, text size etc) which automatically changes the asset/ image appearance. Follow the below steps.

• Download fontawesome-webfont.ttf into your assets folder. Get it from the project https://github.com/bperin/FontAwesomeAndroid. Find the .ttf file inside the project and place it in your assets folder.
• Get familiar with the cheatsheet which has all the icons.Please find it here.
• I'm considering fa-angle-right from cheat sheet which is frequently used as a right arrow in lists.
• Now copy the value of  fa-angle-right to string. String name fa_andle_right and value is 
• It's time for the TextView to make use of the right arrrow. Create a textview as below and assign text as fa_right_arrow.

• "wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:id="@+id/tv_rightarrow"
          android:text="@string/fa_right_arrow"
          android:textSize= "16sp"
          android:textColor="@android:color/holo_red_dark"
          android:layout_margin="10dp"/>

Just one last step. Change the typeface of the TextView

• Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fontawesome-webfont.ttf");
          TextView rightArrowTV = (TextView)findViewById( R.id.tv_rightarrow );
          rightArrowTV.setTypeface(font);

Run the code and see the magic. 

Now it's less dependency on designers.

Cheers.