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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.
- iOS 8.0+
- Xcode 8
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 cocoapodsTo 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 installDo not forget to import to your swift files where you want to use this library:
import Font_Awesome_SwiftCheck branches swift-2.2, swift-2.3 or swift-3
- Copy
FAIcon.swiftandFontAwesome.ttffiles into your project - Check to import
FontAwesome.ttfin project, "Project" > "Target" > "Copy Bundle Resources"
Super easy way how to add an icon.
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)) imageView.setFAIconWithName(icon: .FATwitter, textColor: .blue, backgroundColor: .gray)
imageView.setFAIconWithName(icon: .FATwitter, textColor: .blue)
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)
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))
// 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 // 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) segmentedControl.setFAIcon(icon: .FATwitter, forSegmentAtIndex: 0)
stepper.setFABackgroundImage(icon: .FAGithub, forState: .normal)
stepper.setFAIncrementImage(icon: .FABellO, forState: .normal)
stepper.setFADecrementImage(icon: .FABellSlashO, forState: .normal)
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)
// 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))
// Change navigation title
FATitle = .FATwitter
Patrik Vaberer, [email protected]
Font Awesome Swift is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.