Use font-awesome for Icon in android

Here is steps to how to use font-awesome fonts in Android :

Download font-awesome from here
Create assets folder in app/src/main directory.
Now create fonts folder in assets folder
You can use it in two ways… either create Custom class which extends TextView or Manually get instance of TextView in Activity and then set font.
To choose font visit this site and check all icons.
Here describes both ways..

Create Helper class :

public class CustomFontFamily
{
    static CustomFontFamily customFontFamily;
    HashMap fontMap=new HashMap<>();
    public static CustomFontFamily getInstance()
    {
        if(customFontFamily==null)
            customFontFamily=new CustomFontFamily();
        return customFontFamily;
    }
    public void addFont(String alias, String fontName){
        fontMap.put(alias,fontName);
    }
    public Typeface getFont(String alias)
    {
        String fontFilename = fontMap.get(alias);
        if (fontFilename == null) {
            Log.e("", "Font not available with name " + alias);
            return null;
        }
        else
        {
            Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(CustomApplication.getContext().getAssets(), "fonts/" + fontFilename);
            return typeface;
        }
    }
}

Create Custom TextView :

public class IconTextView extends android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView {

public IconTextView(Context context) { super(context); setFont(); }

public void setFont() { setTypeface(CustomFontFamily.getInstance().getFont(“fontawesome-webfont”)); }

public IconTextView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {

super(context, attrs);

setFont();

}

public IconTextView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {

super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr); setFont();

}

Use in XML:
            android:layout_width=”38dp”
            android:layout_height=”38dp”
            android:layout_alignParentLeft=”true”
            android:layout_gravity=”right”
            android:layout_marginBottom=”5dp”
            android:layout_marginLeft=”5dp”
            android:layout_marginRight=”5dp”
            android:layout_marginTop=”5dp”
            android:layout_weight=”1″
            android:gravity=”center”
            android:text=””
            android:textAllCaps=”false”
            android:textColor=”@color/white”
            android:textSize=”24sp”
            android:visibility=”gone” />

Or just create Normal TextView in XML:

            android:layout_width=”38dp”
            android:layout_height=”38dp”
            android:layout_alignParentLeft=”true”
            android:layout_gravity=”right”
            android:layout_marginBottom=”5dp”
            android:layout_marginLeft=”5dp”
            android:layout_marginRight=”5dp”
            android:layout_marginTop=”5dp”
            android:layout_weight=”1″
            android:gravity=”center”
            android:text=””
            android:textAllCaps=”false”
            android:textColor=”@color/white”
            android:textSize=”24sp”
            android:visibility=”gone” />

And use it in Activity :

Typeface fontAwesome = CustomFontFamily.getInstance().getFont("fontawesome-webfont");
TextView tvIcon = (TextView) orderView.findViewById(R.id.total_icon);
tvIcon.setTypeface(fontAwesome);

Dynamically set font by using its hax value :

tvIcon.setText(new String(Character.toChars(Integer.parseInt("F00D", 16))));

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