How to integrate and use Font Awesome with Objective-C or Swift in an Xcode project?

Question

So I am trying to use this font http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/. I\'ve added the font as a resource and put it in the plist file. Here\'s how I am using it:

Answer 1

So, I can answer it for Swift & Objective C both. (using Swift 3.0 here)

Adding & configuring font-awesome file & Editing Storyboard

Just download font-awesome from here: fontawesome.io and add .ttf to your project

Check the image below for more details...

Now the coding part

Swift 3.0

let iconUniChar: UniChar = 0xf113  
textLabel.text = String(format: "%C", iconUniChar) 

Objective C

_textLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%C", 0xf113];

And, if you are still facing the trouble here's the

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