FontAwesomeTools-iOS

Easily use FontAwesome icons in your iOS projects

Currently using FontAwesome 4.0
Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fontawesome.io

Usage:

For available icons, look at font-awesome-codes.h or browse them at the FontAwesome website.

Get the FontAwesome font:

UIFont *fontAwesome = [FontAwesome fontWithSize:30.0f];

Make a UILabel with a FontAwesome Icon:

UILabel *label = [FontAwesome labelWithIcon:fa_cutlery size:20.0f color:[UIColor blackColor]];

Adjust an existing UILabel to show a FontAwesome Icon:

[FontAwesome label:existingLabel
  		   setIcon:fa_cutlery
     		  size:20.0f
    		 color:[UIColor blackColor]
		 sizeToFit:YES];

Render a FontAwesome Icon in a UIImage:

    UIImage *icon = [FontAwesome imageWithIcon:fa_cutlery 
                                     iconColor:[UIColor redColor] 
                                      iconSize:60.0f 
                                     imageSize:CGSizeMake(90.0f, 90.0f)];

Or if you happen to have an alternate icon font, and just want to use the image rendering code with your own font:

    UIImage *icon2 = [FontAwesome imageWithText:@"\uf190"
                                           font:[UIFont fontWithName:@"FontAwesome" size:60.0f]
                                      iconColor:[UIColor redColor]
                                      imageSize:CGSizeMake(90.0f, 90.0f)];

Installation Step 1:

CocoaPods is great:

1. add pod 'FontAwesomeTools' to your Podfile
2. pod install
3. open the xcworkspace
4. Modify your project's Info.plist file as described below

Non-CocoaPods is easy too:

1. Drag the folder 'FontAwesomeTools' into your project
2. Modify your project's Info.plist file as described below

Installation Step 2:

Modify your project's Info.plist file:

1. Open your project's Info.plist file by clicking on the project in the Navigator on the left, then choosing 'Info'.
2. Under 'Custom iOS Target Properties', click the last Key in the list, then click on the '+' icon.
3. For the new key, type 'Fonts provided by application'.
4. Twirl down the arrow icon, double-tap the right-most box to enter the string value, and type 'FontAwesome.otf'.

There are already a couple FontAwesome libraries for iOS, here is why I decided to make this one:

• Easy upgradability and simpler implementation. No decoupling of the icon name and the unicode value -- I decided to define macros vs. create an enum lookup. The macro header file is a format that can be upgraded instantly with a short script written for a new css file, minimum thought and time required.
• Prefer a naming system as similar as possible to the original FontAwesome CSS. For example, the icon title for 'fa-glass' becomes 'fa_glass', since dashes are disallowed in c macro names.
• Reduced Complexity. I thought I could improve on the available implementations, and hopefully that will make FontAwesomeTools-iOS easier for you to work with.

Shameless Plug:

I built this for inclusion in my app design templates available at TapTemplate