mikepenz/Android-Iconics

Android-Iconics

[!IMPORTANT]

🪦 Android-Iconics is in maintenance mode

This library is deprecated. It still works and will receive critical and security fixes, but no new features and no new icon fonts will be added.

Android-Iconics solved a problem the platform has since solved better: it loads an entire icon font into memory and renders glyphs through a Drawable. In modern Compose projects, vector icons are cheaper, tree-shakeable, previewable, and typed at compile time.

Use instead: ImageVector with Material Symbols / androidx.compose.material.icons — see Migrating away from Android-Iconics.

Existing integrations do not need to move urgently — nothing is being shut off.

... allows to include any icon font with all its vector icons in your project. No limits. Scale with no limit, use any color at any time, provide a contour, and many additional customizations...

Migrating away 🪦 • What's included 🚀 • Setup 🛠️ • Migration Guide 🧬 • WIKI / FAQ 📖 • Custom Font 🖍️ • Sample App

What's included 🚀

• No customization limitations (size, color, contour, background, padding, positioning, ...)
• Shadow support
• Use as XML Drawable starting API 24
• One icon source (no more mdpi, hdpi, ...)
• Flexibility
  • Size
  • Colors
  • Contour
  • Shadow
  • Auto mirroring for RTL (opt-in)
• If it takes a Drawable, it will also work with the IconicsDrawable!
• Save in APK size
• Compose support

Already available fonts

• Google Material Design Icons
• Google Material Symbols
• Material Design Iconic Font
• Fontawesome
• Meteocons
• Octicons
• Community Material
• Weather Icons
• Typeicons
• Entypo
• Devicon
• Foundation Icons
• Ionicons
• Material Design DX
• Pixeden 7 Stroke
• Phosphor
• Simple Icons
• Or create your own font with any icon needed.

Migrating away from Android-Iconics

Compose renders icons as vectors. That removes the font file, the runtime glyph lookup, and the string-key indirection Android-Iconics needed.

// before
Image(GoogleMaterial.Icon.gmd_favorite, colorFilter = ColorFilter.tint(MaterialTheme.colors.primary))

// after
Icon(Icons.Filled.Favorite, contentDescription = null, tint = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary)

Icon sets without a first-party Compose equivalent (FontAwesome, Simple Icons, Phosphor, ...) have community ImageVector ports. For a fully custom set, convert the SVG sources with Android Studio's Vector Asset import instead of shipping a font.

Still on Views? VectorDrawable plus app:tint covers most of what IconicsImageView and friends provided.

Setup

Latest releases 🛠

• Kotlin | v5.6.0

1. Provide the gradle dependency

dependencies {
    //the core iconics library (without any widgets)
    implementation "com.mikepenz:iconics-core:${latestAndroidIconicsRelease}"
    implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:${versions.appCompat}"
}

1b. (optional) Add the view's dependency

//this adds all ui view widgets (IconicsButton, IconicsImageView, ...)
implementation "com.mikepenz:iconics-views:${latestAndroidIconicsRelease}"

2. Choose your desired fonts

[!NOTE] Fonts ending with -kotlin require at least v4.x of Android-Iconics v5.1.x or newer requires the latest font versions

implementation 'com.mikepenz:google-material-typeface:4.0.0.3-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:google-material-typeface-{outlined|rounded|sharp}:4.0.0.2-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:material-design-iconic-typeface:2.2.0.9-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:fontawesome-typeface:5.9.0.3-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:octicons-typeface:11.1.0.1-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:meteocons-typeface:1.1.0.8-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:community-material-typeface:7.0.96.1-kotlin@aar' // note 5.3.45.1 and newer alphabetically sorts, and merges in 3 sections
implementation 'com.mikepenz:weather-icons-typeface:2.0.10.8-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:typeicons-typeface:2.0.7.8-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:entypo-typeface:1.0.0.8-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:devicon-typeface:2.0.0.8-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:foundation-icons-typeface:3.0.0.8-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:ionicons-typeface:2.0.1.8-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:pixeden-7-stroke-typeface:1.2.0.6-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:material-design-icons-dx-typeface:5.0.1.3-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:phosphor-typeface:1.0.0.1-kotlin@aar'
implementation 'com.mikepenz:simple-icons-typeface:17.0.0.3@aar'

[!NOTE] For users of the version catalog, it is not possible to add the type, however you can do so via the implementation definition. implementation(libs.material.typeface) { artifact { type = "aar" } }

[!WARNING]
The fonts use the jetpack startup library to automatically register themselves. If jetpack startup is disabled, it is required to manually register the fonts. Please find additional details in the Register fonts.

Usage

[!NOTE]
It might be required to call Iconics.init(applicationContext) if no context based APIs are used from the library otherwise.

Use as drawable

IconicsDrawable(this, FontAwesome.Icon.faw_android).apply {
    colorInt = Color.RED
    sizeDp = 24
}

Use via XML

If you use the Iconics library via XML provide the icon you want to use in the following syntax: gmd-favorite --> fontId-iconName. A list of the available fonts and their fontId can be found here. All icon names from the default fonts can be found via the DEMO application.

Notation within text

Use the { icon-definer } syntax

Some great text with a {faw-android} font awesome icon and {met-wind} meteocons icons.

Drawable XML (API 24+)

Specify the drawable in your drawable folder.

<com.mikepenz.iconics.IconicsDrawable
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    app:ico_icon="gmd_favorite"
    app:ico_color="#0000FF"
    app:ico_contour_width="1dp"
    app:ico_contour_color="#00FFFF"
    app:ico_size="24dp" />
    // all custom theming attributes supported

Use like any normal drawable in your application. This feature was suggested and initially provided by @dzamlo

Custom Views

As IconicsImageView

<com.mikepenz.iconics.view.IconicsImageView
    android:layout_width="72dp"
    android:layout_height="72dp"
    app:iiv_color="@android:color/holo_red_dark"
    app:iiv_icon="gmd-favorite" />  // or @string/gmd_favorite with our generator
    //app:iiv_size="12dp"
    //app:iiv_padding="2dp"
    //app:iiv_contour_color="#FF0000"
    //app:iiv_contour_width="2dp"
    //app:iiv_background_color="#FFFF00"
    //app:iiv_corner_radius="2dp"
    //app:iiv_background_contour_color="#FF0000"
    //app:iiv_background_contour_width="1dp"
    //app:iiv_shadow_radius="4dp"
    //app:iiv_shadow_dx="1dp"
    //app:iiv_shadow_dy="1dp"
    //app:iiv_animations="spin|blink_alpha|blink_scale"

As IconicsTextView

<com.mikepenz.iconics.view.IconicsTextView
    android:text="abc{hif-test}defgh{faw-adjust}ijk{fon-test1}lmnopqrstuv{fon-test2}wxyz"
    android:textColor="@android:color/black"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="56dp"
    android:textSize="16sp"/>

As IconicsButton

<com.mikepenz.iconics.view.IconicsButton
    android:text="{faw-adjust} Button"
    android:layout_width="120dp"
    android:layout_height="60dp"/>

Compose

To include the experimental compose support in your project add the following dependency to your project (since v5.2.0)

implementation "com.mikepenz:iconics-compose:${latestAndroidIconicsRelease}"

Use the provided Image wrapper and set the icon.

Image(
    GoogleMaterial.Icon.gmd_access_alarm,
    colorFilter = ColorFilter.tint(MaterialTheme.colors.primary),
)

Screenshots

Available fonts

Licenses for all included fonts are linked inside the class or can be found on the coresponding repositories.

Compatibility Note

appcompat:1.4.x

Appcompat v1.4.x introduces default enabled emoji support into all AppCompat* views, which prevents the IconicsView* views (iconics-views module) from properly applying the spannable style. To fix this problem, emoji support has to be disabled by doing:

app:emojiCompatEnabled="false"

More information on the appcompat emoji support: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/appcompat#1.4.0-alpha01

Advanced Usage

Register fonts

If you want to add your own custom font, or a GenericFont you have to register this font (before using it). The best place to do this is the Application.

And initialize Iconics as you wish

class CustomApplication : Application() {
    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()

        //register custom fonts like this (or also provide a font definition file)
        Iconics.registerFont(CustomFont())
    }
}

Advanced IconicsBuilder

Everything is easy and simple. Right? But now you got a single icon within your textview and you need additional styling? Just define the style for all icons or only a specific one. You can find this in the PlaygroundActivity of the sample too.

Iconics.Builder()
    .style(ForegroundColorSpan(Color.WHITE), BackgroundColorSpan(Color.BLACK), RelativeSizeSpan(2f))
    .styleFor(FontAwesome.Icon.faw_adjust, BackgroundColorSpan(Color.RED))
    .on(tv1)
    .build()

String icon-key or typeface enum

Sometimes you won't like to use the icon-key ("faw-adjust") like this, but use the enum provided by a specific font. Both is valid:

IconicsDrawable(this, "faw-adjust").actionBar()

IconicsDrawable(this, FontAwesome.Icon.faw_adjust).apply {
    sizeDp = 24
    paddingDp = 1
}

Create custom fonts

This is possible with only the *.ttf and *.css mapping file. And will take you 2 minutes.

You can get these two files by downloading a web icon font, or if you want to create your own custom icon font from *.svg files then you can use following tools:

• Fontello
• IcoMoon
• Fontastic
• let me know if you find other tools.

After you got those two files, head over to the icon addon creation tool android-iconics.mikepenz.com. Enter all the information. Add the *.ttf and *.css and click the button. It will generate and download the icon font addon as zip. (this tool is local only, no files are sent to a server, you can safely use it with any icons)

String fields for icons

For generating string field for each of icons of your font, you can use this simple generator: Android-Iconics String Generator

Android module generator

A awesome gradle plugin which can automatically fetch a font from Fontastic, and generate the Android Module for your project. Iconics-Font-Generator

ProGuard / R8

ProGuard / R8 rules are bundled internally with each font.

Special Contributor

• Baptiste Lagache Thanks for the gradle font module generator
• Also thanks for all the other contributors.

Credits

• Joan Zapata He is the creator of Android-Iconify which gave me the idea of this project. Some core concepts and ideas were reused, but everything is written from scratch.
• Christopher Jenkins Thanks for the great usage of a custom ContextWrapper inside Calligraphy
• Stephan Schober

Developed By

• Mike Penz

  • mikepenz.dev - blog.mikepenz.dev - [email protected]
  • paypal.me/mikepenz
  • Automatic changelog generation action

• Peter Gulko

  • github.com/zTrap

License

Copyright 2026 Mike Penz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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