Perfect for buttons, logos and nav/tab bars. Easy to extend, style and integrate into your project.
- You can use your own custom icon sets. Supports SVG via Fontello or regular icon fonts.
- You can use native
TabBarIOS
. - You can use icons inline with
Text
components as emojis or to create buttons. - You can use the icon as an image if a native component requires it (such as
NavigatorIOS
). - Most common use cases is JavaScript only and thus enables wider possibilities of styling (and is easier to integrate with your project).
- No need to define
width
andheight
styles. - Presentational stuff like size and color can be defined in your stylesheet instead of via a property (if you want to).
- Icons scale with accessibility settings (unless disabled).
Pst! Migrating from react-native-icons
? Scroll down for more information.
Entypo
by Daniel Bruce (411 icons)EvilIcons
by Alexander Madyankin & Roman Shamin (v1.8.0, 70 icons)FontAwesome
by Dave Gandy (v4.6.3, 634 icons)Foundation
by ZURB, Inc. (v3.0, 283 icons)Ionicons
by Ben Sperry (v3.0.0, 859 icons)MaterialIcons
by Google, Inc. (v2.2.3, 932 icons)Octicons
by Github, Inc. (v3.5.0, 166 icons)Zocial
by Sam Collins (v1.0, 100 icons)
$ npm install react-native-vector-icons --save
If you want to use any of the bundled icons, you need to add the icon fonts to your Xcode project. Just follow these steps:
- Browse to
node_modules/react-native-vector-icons
and drag the folderFonts
(or just the ones you want) to your project in Xcode. Make sure your app is checked under "Add to targets" and that "Create groups" is checked if you add the whole folder. - Edit
Info.plist
and add a property called Fonts provided by application (orUIAppFonts
if Xcode won't autocomplete/not using Xcode) and type in the files you just added. It will look something like this:
Note: you need to recompile your project after adding new fonts, also ensure that they also appear under Copy Bundle Resources in Build Phases.
If you want to use the TabBar/NavigatorIOS integration or use getImageSource
, then you need to add RNVectorIcons.xcodeproj
to Libraries and add libRNVectorIcons.a
to Link Binary With Libraries under Build Phases. More info and screenshots about how to do this is available in the React Native documentation.
Option: With CocoaPods
Add the following to your Podfile
and run pod update
:
pod 'RNVectorIcons', :path => 'node_modules/react-native-vector-icons'
Edit Info.plist
as described above.
Option: With rnpm
$ rnpm link
Note: Some users are having trouble using this method, try one of the others if you are too.
This method has the advantage of fonts being copied from this module at build time so that the fonts and JS are always in sync, making upgrades painless.
Edit android/app/build.gradle
( NOT android/build.gradle
) and add the following:
apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/fonts.gradle"
To customize the files being copied, add the following instead:
project.ext.vectoricons = [
iconFontNames: [ 'MaterialIcons.ttf', 'EvilIcons.ttf' ] // Name of the font files you want to copy
]
apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/fonts.gradle"
- Copy the contents in the
Fonts
folder toandroid/app/src/main/assets/fonts
(note lowercase font folder).
These steps are optional and only needed if you want to use the Icon.getImageSource
function or using custom icons in the Icon.ToolbarAndroid
component.
-
Edit
android/settings.gradle
to look like this (without the +):rootProject.name = 'MyApp' include ':app' + include ':react-native-vector-icons' + project(':react-native-vector-icons').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/android')
-
Edit
android/app/build.gradle
(note: app folder) to look like this:apply plugin: 'com.android.application' android { ... } dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1" compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+" // From node_modules + compile project(':react-native-vector-icons') }
-
Edit your
MainApplication.java
(deep inandroid/app/src/main/java/...
) to look like this (note two places to edit):package com.myapp; + import com.oblador.vectoricons.VectorIconsPackage; .... @Override protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() { return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList( new MainReactPackage() + , new VectorIconsPackage() ); } }
Note: If you're using React Native (Android) <= 0.17, follow this instructions
Option: With rnpm
$ rnpm link
Note: Some users are having trouble using this method, try one of the others if you are too.
OSX via react-native-desktop
- Browse to
node_modules/react-native-vector-icons
and drag the folderFonts
to your project in Xcode. Make sure your app is checked under "Add to targets" and that "Create folder references" is checked. - Edit
Info.plist
and add a property called Application fonts resource path (orATSApplicationFontsPath
if Xcode won't autocomplete/not using Xcode) and typeFonts
as the value.
Note: you need to recompile your project after adding new fonts, also ensure that the Fonts
folder also appear under Copy Bundle Resources in Build Phases.
You can either use one of the bundled icons above or roll your own custom font.
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/FontAwesome';
const myIcon = (<Icon name="rocket" size={30} color="#900" />)
Any Text property and the following:
Prop | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
size |
Size of the icon, can also be passed as fontSize in the style object. |
12 |
name |
What icon to show, see Icon Explorer app or one of the links above. | None |
color |
Color of the icon. | Inherited |
Since Icon
builds on top of the Text
component, most style properties will work as expected, you might find it useful to play around with these:
backgroundColor
borderWidth
borderColor
borderRadius
padding
margin
color
fontSize
NOTE: On android Text
doesn't currently support border*
styles, to circumvent this simply wrap your Icon
with a View
.
By combining some of these you can create for example :
A convenience component for creating buttons with an icon on the left side.
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/FontAwesome';
const myButton = (
<Icon.Button name="facebook" backgroundColor="#3b5998" onPress={this.loginWithFacebook}>
Login with Facebook
</Icon.Button>
);
const customTextButton = (
<Icon.Button name="facebook" backgroundColor="#3b5998">
<Text style={{fontFamily: 'Arial', fontSize: 15}}>Login with Facebook</Text>
</Icon.Button>
);
Any Text
, TouchableHighlight
or TouchableWithoutFeedback
property in addition to these:
Prop | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
color |
Text and icon color, use iconStyle or nest a Text component if you need different colors. |
white |
size |
Icon size. | 20 |
iconStyle |
Styles applied to the icon only, good for setting margins or a different color. | {marginRight: 10} |
backgroundColor |
Background color of the button. | #007AFF |
borderRadius |
Border radius of the button, set to 0 to disable. |
5 |
onPress |
A function called when the button is pressed. | None |
Convenient way to plug this in into other components that rely on bitmap images rather than scalable vector icons. Takes the arguments name
, size
and color
as described above.
Icon.getImageSource('user', 20, 'red').then((source) => this.setState({ userIcon: source }));
For a complete example check out the TabBarExample
project.
Usage with TabBarIOS
Simply use Icon.TabBarItemIOS
instead of TabBarIOS.Item
. This is an extended component that works exactly the same but with three additional properties:
Prop | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
iconName |
Name of the default icon (similar to TabBarIOS.Item icon ) |
None |
selectedIconName |
Name of the selected icon (similar to TabBarIOS.Item selectedIcon ). |
iconName |
iconSize |
Size of the icon. | 30 |
iconColor |
Color of the icon. | None |
selectedIconColor |
Color of the selected icon. | iconColor |
For example usage see Examples/TabBarExample
or the examples section below. Don't forget to import and link to this project as described above if you are going to use the TabBar integration.
Note: using iconColor
and selectedIconColor
requires the attribute renderAsOriginal to be set to true
on Icon.TabBarItemIOS
.
Usage with NavigatorIOS
Use Icon.getImageSource
to get an image source object and pass it as you would with backButtonIcon
, leftButtonIcon
or rightButtonIcon
.
Note: Since NavigatorIOS
doesn't rerender with new state and the async nature of getImageSource
you must not use it with initialRoute
until the icon is rendered, but any view added by push
should be fine. Easiest way is to simple add an if
statment at the beginning of you render method like this:
render() {
if (!this.state.myIcon) {
return false;
}
return (<NavigatorIOS ... />);
}
Development belongs to open-source community - not used by the React Native team on their apps. A result of this is that there is currently a backlog of unresolved bugs, nobody who uses this has stepped up to take ownership for it yet.
You are probably better off with Navigator.NavigationBar
or react-native-navbar
.
Usage with ToolbarAndroid
Simply use Icon.ToolbarAndroid
instead of React.ToolbarAndroid
, this is composition of the underlying ToolbarAndroid
component that works the same but any *icon
property also takes *iconName
:
Prop | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
navIconName |
Name of the navigation icon (similar to ToolbarAndroid navIcon ) |
None |
overflowIconName |
Name of the overflow icon (similar to ToolbarAndroid overflowIcon ). |
none |
actions |
Possible actions on the toolbar as part of the action menu, takes the additional arguments iconName , iconColor and iconSize . |
none |
iconSize |
Size of the icons. | 24 |
iconColor |
Color of the icons. | black |
For example usage see Examples/IconExplorer/index.android.js
or the examples section below. Don't forget to import and link to this project as described above if you are going to use the ToolbarAndroid integration.
Returns your own custom font based on the glyphMap
where the key is the icon name and the value is either a UTF-8 character or it's character code. fontFamily
is the name of the font NOT the filename. Open the font in Font Book.app or similar to learn the name. Optionally pass the third fontFile
argument for android support, it should be a path to the font file in you asset folder.
import { createIconSet } from 'react-native-vector-icons';
const glyphMap = { 'icon-name': 1234, test: 'โ' };
const Icon = createIconSet(glyphMap, 'FontName');
Convenience method to create a custom font based on a fontello config file. Don't forget to import the font as described above and drop the config.json
somewhere convenient in your project.
import { createIconSetFromFontello } from 'react-native-vector-icons';
import fontelloConfig from './config.json';
const Icon = createIconSetFromFontello(fontelloConfig);
import { createIconSetFromIcoMoon } from 'react-native-vector-icons';
import icoMoonConfig from './config.json';
const Icon = createIconSetFromIcoMoon(icoMoonConfig);
Make sure you're using the Download option in IcoMoon, and use the .json
file that's included in the .zip
you've downloaded. You'll also need to import the .ttf
font file into your project, following the instructions above.
React Native comes with an amazing animation library called Animated
. To use it with an icon, simply create an animated component with this line: const AnimatedIcon = Animated.createAnimatedComponent(Icon)
. You can also use the higher level animation library react-native-animatable.
Try the IconExplorer
project in Examples/IconExplorer
folder, there you can also search for any icon.
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Ionicons';
function ExampleView(props) {
return (<Icon name="ios-person" size={30} color="#4F8EF7" />);
}
Full example in TabBarExample
project in Examples/TabBarExample
folder.
import { View, Text, TabBarIOS } from 'react-native';
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Ionicons';
function TabBarView(props) {
return (
<TabBarIOS>
<Icon.TabBarItem
title="Home"
iconName="ios-home-outline"
selectedIconName="ios-home"
>
<View style={styles.tabContent}><Text>Home Tab</Text></View>
</Icon.TabBarItem>
</TabBarIOS>
);
}
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Ionicons';
function ToolbarView(props) {
return (
<Icon.ToolbarAndroid
title="Home"
titleColor="white"
navIconName="md-arrow-back"
onIconClicked={props.navigator.pop}
actions={[
{ title: 'Settings', iconName: 'md-settings', iconSize: 30, show: 'always' },
{ title: 'Follow me on Twitter', iconName: 'logo-twitter', iconColor: "#4099FF", show: 'ifRoom' },
]}
overflowIconName="md-more"
/>
);
}
import { Text } from 'react-native';
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Ionicons';
function ExampleView(props) {
return (<Text>Lorem <Icon name="ios-book" color="#4F8EF7" /> Ipsum</Text>);
}
If you already have a icon font with associated CSS file then you can easily generate a icon set with the generate-icon
script.
./node_modules/.bin/generate-icon path/to/styles.css --componentName=MyIcon --fontFamily=myicon > Components/MyIcon.js
Any flags not listed below, like --componentName
and --fontFamily
, will be passed on to the template.
CSS selector prefix [default: ".icon-"]
Template in lodash format [default: "./template/iconSet.tpl"]
For default template please provide --componentName
and --fontFamily
.
Save output to file, defaults to STDOUT
NOTE: This approach is unsupported and new apps / views should NOT use this component.
With react-native-icons
recently being discontinued, users switching to this library might not want to rewrite all their code. For that use case I've written a drop in replacement component that uses the same icon name syntax. It might break some layouts since the underlying component is different. To use this, simply replace your react-native-icons
import statement with this:
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/RNIMigration';
- Make sure you've copied the font to
android/app/src/main/assets/fonts
. - Delete the
android/app/build
folder. - Recompile the project.
- Make sure you've added the fonts to your XCode project.
- Check that the font you are trying to use appears in
Info.plist
, if you've added the whole folder and it's blue in color, then you need to add it to the path. - Check that the font is copied in the Copy Bundle Resources in Build Phases.
- Recompile the project.
Both npm and android file hierarchies tend to get very deep and even worse when you combine them. Since Windows file system has a max length, long file name addresses will result in numerous errors including Execution failed for task ':react-native-vector-icons:processReleaseResources'
. So try to keep the path to your project folder as short as possible.
This project is licenced under the MIT License.
Any bundled fonts are copyright to their respective authors and mostly under MIT or SIL OFL.