How to use Font Awesome Icons in BottomNavigationView in Android

Question

I want to use Font Awesome Icons in BottomNavigationView 's icons. Also I want to change its color in the Selector . I tried many solutions but I didn't find any materials about that .

Here is my BottomNavigationView

<com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:id="@+id/bottomNav"
        app:menu="@menu/navigation_menu"
        android:background="?android:attr/windowBackground"
        />

Implementation in MainActivity

 private BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener mOnNavigationItemSelectedListener = new BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {
            return false;
        }
    };

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '20 at 13:53

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In native development, the "font-awesome icons" isn't a good choice if you can download "SVG / PNG / URL" you can apply it to the view.

For native android, this is a good alternate https://material.io/resources/icons/?icon=print&style=baseline

answered Oct 07 '20 at 13:53

Tejas Dhawale

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what will I do with the SVG Icon ? – Ahmed Elsayed Oct 07 '20 at 13:55
you can create a vector drawable and set it as background for your reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39266840/7209822 – Tejas Dhawale Oct 07 '20 at 14:21
Please can I know how is SVG looks like ? it's an image ? or URL ? – Ahmed Elsayed Oct 07 '20 at 14:37
SVG is a scalable vector drawable. it's easy! For now, just refer this article https://www.androidhive.info/2017/02/android-working-svg-vector-drawables/ – Tejas Dhawale Oct 07 '20 at 14:55

How to use Font Awesome Icons in BottomNavigationView in Android

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