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

I was looking for the helper library for Swift3 and found this to be very simple and working solution https://github.com/Syndicode/FontAwesomeKitSwift3. It has animations that explain for novices like me how to include it and use quickly.

Answer 2

In Swift:

Font Awesome Cheatsheet.

Tutorial on how to integrate the font called "Font Awesome" in your Xcode project.

Common Mistakes With Adding Custom Fonts to Your iOS App

let label = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100))
label.font = UIFont(name: "FontAwesome", size: 40)
let myChar: UniChar = 0xF180
label.text = String(format: "%C", myChar)
self.view.addSubview(label)

Answer 3

BEST solution for FA with XCode:

1. Copy the icon you want from http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/ (I mean mark and copy the icon itself):

2. Then add a label to your storyboard, and on its properties:

• RED - Choose FontAwesome as family
• GREEN - Set the size you want
• BLUE - Paste here what you copied in the 1st step. (dont worry about the question mark - in the view you should see it properly).

That's it.

If you need to change the icon in the code - you can paste 1st step inside your code too:

Answer 4

Not sure you ever got this working properly, but there's now a couple of nice projects on github:

https://github.com/alexdrone/ios-fontawesome - which gives you a category for NSString which offers basic help using FontAwesome.

and https://github.com/leberwurstsaft/FontAwesome-for-iOS which gives you a NSString category with fontAwesomeIconStringForIconIdentifier and also an UIImageView subclass: FAImageView

Answer 5

You can just use the literal code string by affixing it with \u.

e.g. You can use \f030 in your iOS app using the following snippet.

[[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero] setText:@"\uf030"];

Answer 6

not sure if this answer will be useful looking at the date you posted your question.... but to help someone maybe who is doing it at the moment,

[self.homefeedbutton setTitle:@"o" forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [self.homefeedbutton.titleLabel setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"fontawesome" size:30]];

setTitle:@"o" o is a name of the font, don't use the unichar, instead rename your font to something else preferable a letter, e.g if you check fontello.com , select icon, then click customize code tab, on top of you icon there is a small box, change it to any letter....

shout if its not clear enough , I will try to explain in a different way.