react-native-fontawesome

React Native Fontawesome Icons

Benefits

No bloatware, one package with one iconset, nothing more nothing less
Full set of FontAwesome Icons properly updated
Insanely fast with minimal memory footprint
Uses the OS to render icons, for best in class performance (refer to performance note bellow)

Installation process

Using yarn

npm i -g yarn

yarn add react-native-fontawesome

Using npm

npm i --save react-native-fontawesome

This module uses Font Awesome version 4.7.0. There is no need to link binaries just import the package and include the Font File in your project.

Follow this guides for adding FontAwesome.ttf to your projects:

Adding Custom Fonts to A React Native Application for IOS

Custom Fonts in React Native for Android

Usage

import FontAwesome, { Icons } from 'react-native-fontawesome';

...
render() {
  return (
    <View>
      <TouchableHighlight>
        <Text style={{margin: 10, fontSize: 15, textAlign: 'left'}}>
          <FontAwesome>{Icons.chevronLeft}</FontAwesome>
          Text
        </Text>
      </TouchableHighlight>
    </View>
  );
},

Note on hyphens

Javascript don't accept hyphens as valid object names hence all hyphens were removed and names converted to camel case.

Example: th-large becomes thLarge

Styling

You can apply styles directly into the FontAwesome RN component by just passing a style as you do in a <Text> component.


<FontAwesome style={{fontSize: 32}}>
    {Icons.chevronLeft}
</FontAwesome>

Why this is fast, and uses almost no extra memory

This package uses the Text element to render Icons. The Text element delegates to the OS the render process of the icons based on the Font file. Both IOS and Android render fonts amazingly fast with little memory overhead. In essence FontAwesome.ttf will be used by the OS to render icons and will benefit of years of native software improvement as well hardware acceleration.

Do you want to create a Custom Font with your Icons?

Take a look on this https://github.com/entria/font-generator, it will generate a TTF font to be used much like this package

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