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:

[homeFeedButton.titleLabel setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"fontawesome" size:8]];
NSString *str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%C", @"\f030"];

However this doesn't work. Does anyone know how to use this font in an Xcode project?

Answer 1

In Swift:

Font Awesome Cheatsheet.

Tutorial on how to integrate the font called "Font Awesome" in your Xcode project.

Common Mistakes With Adding Custom Fonts to Your iOS App

let label = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100))
label.font = UIFont(name: "FontAwesome", size: 40)
let myChar: UniChar = 0xF180
label.text = String(format: "%C", myChar)
self.view.addSubview(label)

Answer 2

BEST solution for FA with XCode:

1. Copy the icon you want from http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/ (I mean mark and copy the icon itself):

2. Then add a label to your storyboard, and on its properties:

• RED - Choose FontAwesome as family
• GREEN - Set the size you want
• BLUE - Paste here what you copied in the 1st step. (dont worry about the question mark - in the view you should see it properly).

That's it.

If you need to change the icon in the code - you can paste 1st step inside your code too:

Answer 3

Not sure you ever got this working properly, but there's now a couple of nice projects on github:

https://github.com/alexdrone/ios-fontawesome - which gives you a category for NSString which offers basic help using FontAwesome.

and https://github.com/leberwurstsaft/FontAwesome-for-iOS which gives you a NSString category with fontAwesomeIconStringForIconIdentifier and also an UIImageView subclass: FAImageView

Answer 4

It is because your +[NSString stringWithFormat:] method contains the literal for a unichar, not an NSString, which is an object that uses %@, which is beside the point because literal'ing a literal is redundant.