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 have made a library in swift language with easy integration for UILabel, UIButton and UIBarButtonItem. Also supports Pods. Font Awesome Swift

Answer 2

This may help someone else... I had about 90% of Font Awesome icons working in my project, except a handful of them I couldn't get them to display correctly. They'd instead display a "..." icon instead.

After several hours of investigating unicode characters in Objective-C, I realised I was barking up the wrong tree! "..." isn't a FontAwesome icon, it's UIKit telling me that the frame of the UILabel is too small/font too large to display the text string! D'oh.

Answer 3

You can also use the library FontAwesome+iOS for iOS

Then you only need to use this code:

label.text = [NSString fontAwesomeIconStringForIconIdentifier:@"icon-github"];
// or:
label.text = [NSString fontAwesomeIconStringForEnum:FAIconGithub];

Answer 4

Below is the code to set image to a UIButton using FontAwesome

 UIButton *btnMenu = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
 btnMenu.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 40, 32);
 [btnMenu setTitle:@"\uf0c9" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
 [btnMenu setTitleColor:[UIColor whiteColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
 [btnMenu.titleLabel setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"FontAwesome" size:16]];

Answer 5

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

entire source code

Answer 6

NSLog your all font using following code and provide exact name.

 NSArray *familyNames = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:[UIFont familyNames]];
    NSArray *fontNames;
    NSInteger indFamily, indFont;
    for (indFamily=0; indFamily<[familyNames count]; ++indFamily)
    {
        NSLog(@"Family name: %@", [familyNames objectAtIndex:indFamily]);
        fontNames = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:
                     [UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:
                      [familyNames objectAtIndex:indFamily]]];
        for (indFont=0; indFont<[fontNames count]; ++indFont)
        {
            NSLog(@"    Font name: %@", [fontNames objectAtIndex:indFont]);
        }
    }