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The Font Awesome Icon pack available as Flutter Icons
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Update to Font Awesome Version 6 #199

Closed devj3ns closed 2 years ago

devj3ns commented 2 years ago

Font Awesome Version 6 is released 🎉

michaelspiss commented 2 years ago

Hi! Whilst I'm also excited for the new icons, it will take a while until they are going to be available for flutter. Font awesome have removed the metadata folder, which we use to generate the flutter/icon bindings. However, they currently consider re-adding it.

Until their decision is final, this package will not be updated and stays at the current version. I simply don't have the time to rewrite the generator again, to support their GraphQL API and all its future iterations.

If you'd like to see font awesome 6 icons in flutter anytime soon, I suggest you drop them an email regarding the missing metadata folder in fa6.

ryanawhelan commented 2 years ago

@devj3ns I am using 6.0, if you want to give it a try: https://github.com/ryanawhelan/font_awesome_flutter

3ph commented 2 years ago

From FontAwesome team today:

Our dev team is currently working on that. I don't have a release date just yet, but we will get the word out when it's ready.

chrisjones314 commented 2 years ago

FWIW, I have been subscribing to FA for a few years, and I emailed support about this issue. I got an email back stating "Thanks for reaching out. We are actually releasing that this week. Stay tuned!" I got that email on March 14th. So, hopefully that indicates something is happening, perhaps that they are just adding the icons.json back.

devj3ns commented 2 years ago

@michaelspiss

Version 6.1.0 of FontAwesome contains the metadata files again 🎉😀

chrisjones314 commented 2 years ago

The icons.json works, but it contains two icons that are named with numbers (00 and 42something). These aren't valid identifiers. Its easy to work around, which I did successfully and it is now working, but out of the box it yields compilation errors in the generated .dart files.

devj3ns commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your work on supporting FA v6.1.0 @michaelspiss 💙