Andicons

A neat little Android library for using font-based glyphs as drawables and bitmaps in your Android applications!

Built-in Support

Currently, the Andicons library provides the AndiconView class as well as support for the following glyph sets:

• OcticonsSet -> Octicons
  • Will look for octicons_regular.ttf in your application's assets directory
• FontAwesomeSet -> Font Awesome
  • Will look for fontawesome.ttf in your application's assets directory
• Font Awesome More Sets -> Font Awesome More
  • FontAwesomeMoreExtSet
    • Will look for fontawesome_more_ext.ttf in your application's assets directory
  • FontAwesomeMoreSocialSet
    • Will look for fontawesome_more_social.ttf in your application's assets directory
  • FontAwesomeMoreCorpSet
    • Will look for fontawesome_more_corp.ttf in your application's assets directory

Using & Such

I'm a fan of git submodules (and IntelliJ), so in order to use this library I recommend adding this repository as a submodule of your encompassing project's repository:

git submodule add git://github.com/eddieringle/andicons contrib/andicons

Now add the Andicons library as a module in IntelliJ and add that module as a dependency of your project. You're then ready to start using Andicons!

Andicons does not provide the actual TrueType font files per se. It's up to you to get permission (if needed) to use these sets as well as track down the file for inclusion in your application. See the above section titled "Built-in Support" to see more details on specific filenames and locations.

You can add Andicons programmatically, or directly into layouts, like so:

<com.github.eddieringle.android.libs.andicons.AndiconView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="@color/android_green"
        android:textSize="64sp"
        app:andicon_set="fontawesome"
        app:andicon_id="@integer/fontawesome_leaf" />

You can also set the andicon used by the AndiconView programmatically, for example:

andiconView.setAndicon(AndiconView.SET_FONTAWESOME, FontAwesomeSet.IC_LEAF);

The above would result in this (don't mind the other bits, I just threw this example into another application I'm working on because I was lazy):