React-native fontawesome some icons are not showing

Question

I just added FontAwesome without third-party libary like this tutorial and its mainly working but some (about the half) of all Icons are just empty sqares

so what am i doing wrong? or is FontAwesome just partially available in React-native?

thanks for your help in advance

Edit 1:

code I am using:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Text, View, Button, AsyncStorage, ScrollView } from 'react-native';
import styles from './../Styles/styles';

  render() {
   return (
    <ScrollView>
     <View style={styles.container}>

{...some other unrelated stuff here...}

      <Text style={{ fontFamily: 'fontawesome', fontSize: 16 }}>
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    </View>
  </ScrollView>
);
}

package.json

{...}
"rnpm": {
    "assets": [
      "./assets/fonts/"
    ]
 } 

the fontawesome.ttf is located at .\\Projectname\\assets\\fonts\\fontawesome.ttf"

Answer 1

Maybe it's too late, but I had the same problem.

After running:

react-native link

the issue was solved for me.

Answer 2

I am running into the same problem while using the library:

import FontAwesome from "react-native-vector-icons/FontAwesome";

... // <setting up bottom tab navigation>
let iconName = "store";
return <FontAwesome name={iconName} size={21} color={tintColor} />

Many icons does seem to be missing from the library. I'd suggest looking into ./node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/glythmaps/FontAwesome.json and see if they exist there, or whichever library you are using. The names on FontAwesome.com does not necessarily reflect the ones in this library.

For instance, the tachometer icon, on the website the free icon is tachometer-alt and in this library it is tachometer .

Another option is to use a different icon package from the react-native-vector-icons . I tried FontAwesome5 and had similar issues.

Answer 3

I think using https://github.com/FortAwesome/react-native-fontawesome is a better idea than completely avoiding any library, since it allows user to import only selected icons, and it is basically just a bunch of svgs packed into files.
If you have a licence you can use pro fonts as well.

I had a similar issue that I could not use image-polaroid with expo-fonts, and found out they recently released an official library usable with RN (or Expo).