How to use Font Awesome icon in android application?

Question

I want to use Font Awesome\'s icon set in my android application. I have some TextView to set those icons. I don\'t want to use any png image. My Textview is li

Answer 1

Here are the steps to follow:

1. First download font-awesome from here: http://fontawesome.io/
2. Create assets folder and add fontawesome-webfont.ttf to this folder
3. Create a helper class by below code:

public class FontManager {
    public static final String ROOT = "fonts/",
    FONTAWESOME = ROOT + "fontawesome-webfont.ttf";   
    public static Typeface getTypeface(Context context, String font) {
        return Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), font);
    }    
}

4. Now use font awesome to your textview using below code

Typeface iconFont = FontManager.getTypeface(getApplicationContext(), FontManager.FONTAWESOME);
tvIcon1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvIcon1);
tvIcon2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvIcon2);
tvIcon3 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvIcon3);
tvIcon1.setTypeface(iconFont);
tvIcon2.setTypeface(iconFont);
tvIcon3.setTypeface(iconFont);

You can get full source code in my blog post here.