react-native-fa-icons

Font Awesome Icons for React Native. Inspired from react-native-fontawesome. This module uses Font Awesome latest version 4.7.0.

Benefits

• No bloatware, one package with one iconset, nothing more nothing less
• Full set of FontAwesome Icons properly updated
• Insanely fast with minimal memory footprint
• Uses the OS to render icons, for best in class performance (refer to performance note bellow)

Installation

Using npm

npm i --save react-native-fa-icons

Using yarn

yarn add react-native-fa-icons

Adding Font File

Automatically

react-native link react-native-fa-icons

Note: There is no Java/ObjectiveC/swift binaries added using this command, it simply adds the font file to your android and ios projects.

Manually

Adding Custom Fonts to A React Native Application for IOS

Adding Custom Fonts to A React Native Application for Android

Usage

import Icon from 'react-native-fa-icons';

<Icon name="address-book" style={{ fontSize: 45, color: 'green' }} />

Props

| prop | required | type | description | | ---- | ---- | ----| ---- | | name | Yes | string | Icon name from here. |

All props supported by react-native Text are also supported by Ìcon. See: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/text#props

Why this is fast, and uses almost no extra memory

This package uses the Text element to render Icons. The Text element delegates to the OS the render process of the icons based on the Font file. Both IOS and Android render fonts amazingly fast with little memory overhead. In essence
FontAwesome.ttf will be used by the OS to render icons and will benefit of years of native software improvement as well hardware acceleration.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Muhammad Usman

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.