Dynamically Set Font Icon from Code using FontAwesome without String.xml

Question

I am trying to load font icon using fontawesome.ttf in a textView. If i set the string value like  through string.xml then it works file and Icon is shown. But if the same text "" is set programatically as textView.setText("") then it doesn't show the icon , rather the same text is shown on textview.

Any alternative approach to show icons programatically without referring string.xml file ?

Answer 1

Try using the Unicode code... \uf007.
This should work just fine:

textView.setText("\uf007");