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.