Unrecognized font family ionicons

Question

I followed the setup instructions in the NativeBase Docs and ran rnpm link. I am getting this error: Unrecognized font family ionicons

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Answer 1

Expanding on the exisiting answer and using the solution found on this github issue, do the following;

1. Close the running packager
2. Run react-native link react-native-vector-icons
3. Then run react-native start --reset-cache
4. Finally run react-native run-ios to restart the simulator