How to Use FontAwesome Icon in Xamarin Android

Question

I am developing an xamarin Android application and need to use FontAwesome icons in application. But don't know how to use it. Got lot's of articles on internet but it's not clear to me.

How to use FontAwesome icons on Xamarin.Android?

What have you tried so far, any code you have tried? There are lot of tutorials about adding font awesome to the asset folder and creating a helper class on the interweb. — jaymarvels
– jaymarvels, Commented Oct 18, 2017 at 8:57
but as I have tried the code they have provided in these articles It showing me an error under each line of code. type or namespace could not be found(are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) — Sumeet Kumar
– Sumeet Kumar, Commented Oct 18, 2017 at 9:04

cherry · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-12 21:14:14Z

I have got worked as below:

Copy FontAwesome ttf file to Assets folder. Then under OnCreate() method of Activity page the control should be referred to the font file as below:

Activity Page:

Typeface font = Typeface.CreateFromAsset(Application.Assets, "fontawesome-webfont.ttf"); TextView txtv = (TextView)FindViewById(Resource.Id.textviewtitle); txtv.Typeface = font;

.xaml Page:

<TextView android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:editable="false" android:text="\uf238 Unicode To get FontAwesome icon" android:textSize="20dp" android:textColor="#545454" android:textStyle="bold" android:padding="6dp" android:id="@+id/textviewtitle" />

As you see above in .xaml Page code android:text="\uf238 Unicode To get FontAwesome icon", I have declared \uf238. This is unicode for the particular icon. Every Icon would have unique unicode. Therefore we should use always unicode character to get any icon displayed on control or on text.