Material font icons on Xamarin Forms

peedroca

Peedroca

Posted on November 4, 2020

Material font icons on Xamarin Forms

Hello devs 🖖, recently I'm searching how to use Materialize icons in my mobile app maked with Xamarin.Forms 4.8, but I could't find a great step by step. Therefore I will try to do it today.

Font Source

You need to download the TFF font at material design google repo, so go to material-design-icons > font > MaterialIcons-Regular.ttf.

Using font icon

Step 1. Put archieve tff on folder Fonts in your Xamarin Shared Project.

image

Don't forget to set build action as Embedded resource.

Step 2. Add ExportFont in your App.xaml.cs as below:

...

[assembly: ExportFont("MaterialIconsRegular.ttf", Alias = "Material")]
namespace MaterialApp
{
    public partial class App : Application
    {
        public App()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            MainPage = new MainPage();
        }

...
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Alias is optional.

Step 3. Use a materialize font in any page you need.

<StackLayout>
    <Label Text="&#xe87C;" FontSize="50" TextColor="Orange"
           FontFamily="Material" HorizontalOptions="Center" />      
</StackLayout>
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You will need the hexadecimal code, You can get it at MaterialIcons-Regular.codepoints.

I like to search icons on https://material.io/resources/icons/?style=baseline and get theirs names, so I find the hexadecimal code at MaterialIcons-Regular.codepoints. (you can find it in google repo.)

That's all, folks. 😄

💖 💪 🙅 🚩
peedroca
Peedroca

Posted on November 4, 2020

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