React-Native-Pure-Icon

This is a simple implementation of having custom icons in React-Native. There are a lot of implementations but most of them use native code. You can even just copy the content into your project.

In this repo, I have introduced a simple way to incorporate your custom fonts in your React-Native by just using Text Component and some unicode helper.

Create Custom Fonts

For creating custom fonts, you can use a free tools icomoon.io. You can import all of your custom shapes as SVG and it transforms them into ttf file. It also exports a css file which contains a unique unicode assign to each shape, which you can use it with this module.

Usage

• install the module from npm, npm install react-native-pure-icon --save
• in Android copy font file to android/app/src/main/assets/fonts
• in iOS
  • right click on your project in xCode and select Add files to and add the font file
  • edit Info.plist and add a property Fonts provided by application and add the font file
• recompile and build the project
• create a file called font_types.js and add the unicode representation of each shape.

export default {
  "Home": "e900",
  "PAINT": "e901",
  "CLUBS": "e902",
  "FILE": "e903"
}

if you are using icomoon.io, when you generate font, it will also generate a style.css which contains all of the unicode numbers.

• Using glypyMapMaker utility, convert font_types into actual values which can be used by Text component.

import { Icon, glypyMapMaker } from 'react-native-pure-icon';
import fontTypes from './font_types';

const glypy = glypyMapMaker(fontTypes);

//inside your component
<Icon type={glypy.HOME} font="custom_font" style={{ fontSize: 14 }}/>