Font Awesome Swift

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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

1. Copy FAIcon.swift and FontAwesome.ttf files into your project
2. 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, patrik@toptal.com

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Licence

Font Awesome Swift is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.