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jsmarcus / Iconize

Use icon fonts in your Xamarin.Forms application!
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Do this plugin is necessary yet? #135

Closed candidodmv closed 5 years ago

candidodmv commented 5 years ago

At release v3.6 of Xamarin.Forms was implemented the feature FontIconSource as described on this issue , so what this plugin does beyond that build in feature?

jsmarcus commented 5 years ago

FontImageSource is nice and will allow us to obsolete some of the code but it doesn't make this project unnecessary. For one, it will only work for images which is memory intensive (vs a label or button using just text). Also, most places only support FileImageSource right now so you won't be able to use FontImageSource in places like the Toolbar yet. I believe they are trying to change all those specific FileImageSources to just ImageSource. However, once that is done you would still have to know all the specific Unicode values and the font names, etc. We have an IconFontImageSource available shortly that won't require you to know the font names or Unicode. You'll be able to continue using the ligatures like fa-rabbit and have it work with the new goodness.