fontawesome icons not displaying in Android app

Question

We're coding an Android app using fontawesome icons. Our app works fine with fontawesome icons on iOS but nothing for Android. I tried all sorts of online fixes and none of them worked, and I really don't feel like creating a few hundred different PNG's for each screen resolution.

What do I do? I can't do this: How to use icons and symbols from "Font Awesome" on Native Android Application

The way we're defining it (fontawesome.css):

@font-face {
  font-family: 'FontAwesome';
  src: url('fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=3.2.1');
  src: url('fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=3.2.1') format('embedded-opentype'), url('fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=3.2.1') format('woff'), url('fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=3.2.1') format('truetype'), url('fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.svg#fontawesomeregular?v=3.2.1') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

With all of our fonts in fonts/fontawesome.

Not a single clue on how to get this working on Android..

Are your fonts folder and fontawesome.css file in the same directory? If so try putting `./` before `fonts` in your URL. — Andrew Lively, Oct 11 '13 at 19:26
They are not in the same folder, they work on iOS so the path is correct. — eveo, Oct 11 '13 at 19:37
Have you tried the below solution? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15028602/font-awesome-icons-are-not-working-in-some-browsers — user1666620, Nov 11 '13 at 11:13
also check this article: http://shomeser.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-use-icon-fonts-in-android.html — Oleksii K., Nov 13 '13 at 20:50
Solved it by changing an android specific stylesheet that was overriding a link to my font file. That's all, hahaha. — eveo, Nov 27 '13 at 20:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 20 '17 at 07:35

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try to remove the version paramter ?v=3.2.1

src: url('fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.eot');

some old webkit can't recognize the url with paramaters

edited Sep 20 '17 at 07:35

Carl0s1z

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answered Sep 02 '14 at 01:17

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