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Material font icons on Xamarin Forms

Hello devs ๐Ÿ––, 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.

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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. ๐Ÿ˜„

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Russell.๎จ€

I followed the step by step instructions but my icon does not appear as intended. here's how it looks like.

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Victor Hugo Garcia

Very nice article. However, I could not find a way to use MaterialIcons rounded or outlined versions.

I'm wondering if you have implemented those versions.

Thanks in advance

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Peedroca

Thanks!

The rounded and outlined icons was added some months ago... Try get it here: github.com/google/material-design-...

Tell me if you got it!