How to use Font Awesome icons in project as an icon of ImageButton

Question

I am having a problem to realize how to use Font Awesome icons in my Xamarin application, I want to use it with ImageButtonas icon. And most tutorials I found didn't help me understand how it works.

What specific problem are you having? – Jason Dec 01 '20 at 17:09 — Jason, Dec 01 '20 at 17:09
How to implement and use font awesome icons – GotStuckatm Dec 01 '20 at 17:11 — GotStuckatm, Dec 01 '20 at 17:11

Cfun · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-24T23:25:59.203

As explained in Microsoft Documentation:

You need to first to have the font file I believe .ttf (or .otf).
Add it to your shared project.
Right click on the file and click on "properties", then set it build action to Embedded Resource.
Export it with a friendly alias name in your AssemblyInfo.cs or App.xaml.cs:

[assembly: ExportFont("file-name.ttf", Alias = "FontAwesome")]

Consume it:

<Label FontFamily="FontAwesome" Text="&#xf004;"/>

For the list of icons code take a look at FontAwesome codes.

If you want to use it with click capabilities like a button, then you can use a label with GestureRecognizers:

<Label FontFamily="FontAwesome" Text="&#xf004;">
     <Label.GestureRecognizers>
         <TapGestureRecognizer Tapped="TapGestureRecognizer_Tapped"/>
     </Label.GestureRecognizers>
</Label>

UPDATE

Even better use an ImageButton with a FontImageSource property instead of a label, you have click capabilities of a button also I found interesting that you can change the color of your glyph icon, weather hard-coded or dynamically depending on the selected theme, here is an example:

<ImageButton>
    <ImageButton.Source>
        <FontImageSource FontFamily="FontAwesome"
                         Glyph="{x:Static fonts:IconFont.AddressBook}"
                         Color="{AppThemeBinding Dark=White,
                                                 Light=Black}"/>
    </ImageButton.Source>
</ImageButton>

You can also define a static class having const string properties, each one having as value the code corresponding to an icon glyph and as name a description of it that way you will need to provide only the description instead of the code like I did with Glyph="{x:Static fonts:IconFont.AddressBook}", it will looks something like this:

 static class IconFont
    {
        public const string Ad = "\uf641";
        public const string AddressBook = "\uf2b9";
...
}

I invite you to follow this video tutorial and check out this GitHub Page which generate the static c# class for you starting from a font glyph file that you submit.

any other way to use it, like in label or etec. to look like button (clickable) — GotStuckatm, Dec 01 '20 at 17:30
Don't forget to add a reference to the IconFont class's namespace in the header of the page's XAML file. Something like this: `xmlns:constants="clr-namespace:YOUR_APP_NAMESPACE"` Then I had to write out the Glyph attribute like so: `Glyph="{x:Static Member=constants:Constants.AddressBook}"` — gadildafissh, Jun 07 '23 at 22:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '23 at 13:13

FontAwesome have multiple framework supported (Vue, React, Angular, WordPress, LESS, SCSS). But I don't know why they are not providing it for Xamarin Forms and MAUI.

I have created custom control for Xamarin Forms and MAUI.

Instructions are available at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Brushtail.FontAwesome.Mobile/

Feedbacks are welcome.

How to use Font Awesome icons in project as an icon of ImageButton

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