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Font Awesome Swift
Follow me: @vaberer
I like ★. Do not forget to ★ this super convenient library.
Added UISegmentedControl
& UITabbarItem
& UISlider
& UIStepper
& UITextField
support!
Font Awesome swift library for iOS. No image icons any more. Using Font Awesome Swift library is very easy to use. Look at the demo app which shows all icons and their names or just visit FontAwesome.
Requirements
- iOS 8.0+
- Xcode 8
Installation
CocoaPods
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects.
CocoaPods 0.36 adds supports for Swift and embedded frameworks. You can install it with the following command:
$ gem install cocoapods
To integrate Font Awesome Swift into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile
:
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!
pod 'Font-Awesome-Swift', '~> 1.7.2'
Then, run the following command:
$ pod install
Do not forget to import to your swift files where you want to use this library:
import Font_Awesome_Swift
Check branches swift-2.2
, swift-2.3
or swift-3
Manually
- Copy
FAIcon.swift
andFontAwesome.ttf
files into your project - Check to import
FontAwesome.ttf
in project, "Project" > "Target" > "Copy Bundle Resources"
Usage
Super easy way how to add an icon.
UIImage
For Stacked images, please refer Stacked Icons
UIImage.init(icon: .FATwitter, size: CGSize(width: 35, height: 35))
// Change colors
UIImage.init(icon: .FATwitter, size: CGSize(width: 35, height: 35), textColor: .red, backgroundColor: .black)
// Stacked Images With Bigger Background
UIImage.init(bgIcon: .FASquareO, bgTextColor: .white, topIcon: .FATwitter, topTextColor: .white, bgLarge: true)
UIImage.init(bgIcon: .FACircle, bgTextColor: .black, topIcon: .FAFlag, topTextColor: .white, bgLarge: true)
// Stacked Images With Smaller Background
UIImage.init(bgIcon: .FACamera, bgTextColor: .black, topIcon: .FABan, topTextColor: .red, bgLarge: false)
// Stacked Images With Bigger Background and Custom Size
UIImage.init(bgIcon: .FASquare, bgTextColor: .black, topIcon: .FATerminal, topTextColor: .white, bgLarge: true, size: CGSize(width: 50, height: 50))
UIImageView
imageView.setFAIconWithName(icon: .FATwitter, textColor: .blue, backgroundColor: .gray)
imageView.setFAIconWithName(icon: .FATwitter, textColor: .blue)
UILabel
labelName.FAIcon = .FAGithub
labelName.setFAIcon(icon: .FAGithub, iconSize: 35)
labelName.setFAText(prefixText: "follow me on ", icon: .FATwitter, postfixText: ". Thanks!", size: 25)
// Bigger icon:
labelName.setFAText(prefixText: "follow me on ", icon: .FATwitter, postfixText: ". Thanks!", size: 25, iconSize: 30)
labelName.setFAColor(.red)
UIButton
buttonName.setFAIcon(icon: .FAGithub, forState: .normal)
// Set icon size
buttonName.setFAIcon(icon: .FAGithub, iconSize: 35, forState: .normal)
buttonName.setFAText(prefixText: "follow me on ", icon: .FATwitter, postfixText: ". Thanks!", size: 25, forState: .normal)
// Bigger icon
buttonName.setFAText(prefixText: "follow me on ", icon: .FATwitter, postfixText: ". Thanks!", size: 25, forState: .normal, iconSize: 30)
// Change color:
buttonName.setFATitleColor(color: .red, forState: .normal))
UIBarButtonItem
// Standard font size
barName.FAIcon = .FAGithub
// Custom font size
barName.setFAIcon(icon: .FAGithub, iconSize: 35)
barName.setFAText(prefixText: "follow me on ", icon: .FATwitter, postfixText: ". Thanks!", size: 25)
barName.tintColor = .red
UITextField
// Right View Icon
textfield.setRightViewFAIcon(icon: .FASearch, rightViewMode: .always, textColor: .red, backgroundColor: .clear, size: nil)
// Left View Icon
textfield.setLeftViewFAIcon(icon: .FAPlus, leftViewMode: .always, textColor: .red, backgroundColor: .clear, size: nil)
UISegmentedControl
segmentedControl.setFAIcon(icon: .FATwitter, forSegmentAtIndex: 0)
UIStepper
stepper.setFABackgroundImage(icon: .FAGithub, forState: .normal)
stepper.setFAIncrementImage(icon: .FABellO, forState: .normal)
stepper.setFADecrementImage(icon: .FABellSlashO, forState: .normal)
UITabbarItem
tabBarController?.tabBar.items?.first?.setFAIcon(.FATwitter)
// Options to change selected and unselected color
tabBarItem.setFAIcon(icon: .FATwitter, size: nil, textColor: .red, backgroundColor: .black, selectedTextColor: .yellow, selectedBackgroundColor: .white)
// Options to change selected and unselected color with specific size
tabBarItem.setFAIcon(icon: .FATwitter, size: CGSize(width: 35, height: 35), textColor: .red, backgroundColor: .black, selectedTextColor: .yellow, selectedBackgroundColor: .white)
UISlider
// Change minimum or maximum value image
slider.setFAMinimumValueImage(icon: .FABellSlashO)
slider.setFAMaximumValueImage(icon: .FABellO)
// change minimum or maximum value image with a specific size
slider.setFAMinimumValueImage(icon: .FABellSlashO, customSize: CGSize(width: 35, height: 35))
slider.setFAMaximumValueImage(icon: .FABellO, customSize: CGSize(width: 35, height: 35))
UIViewController
// Change navigation title
FATitle = .FATwitter
Author
Patrik Vaberer, [email protected]
Licence
Font Awesome Swift is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Font-Awesome-Swift README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.