Support FontIcon widget
See original GitHub issueAt least in winRT and web apps using font-icons instead of png/gif/jpg or even SVG icons get’s increasingly common.
There are some very significant advantages:
- Infinite Scalability: No need to think about different image and screen resolutions.
- No additional resources: All you need is one font (which is either part of the OS or bundled with client).
- Customizable colors: Decide at runtime which color the icon should have.
- Consistent UI: Using one (or two) fonts per client gives your app have a look matching the OS.
Disadvantages:
- Monochromatic only
Windows and Android provide fonts for their platform, see here, here and here. I couldn’t find one for iOS/Mac/Apple, but there are free fonts we could use, like this one, this one and this one. Those could also be used to fill in missing icons on the android/windows fonts.
We would have to find common icons the different fonts use and make them available under one keyword, e.g.
tabris.create("FontIcon", { glyph: "phone", ios_glyph: "#8657" } );
I think this feature would fit perfectly with our “easey-to-use” USP. Discuss!
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- Created 8 years ago
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- Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)
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It’s not possible to use custom fonts where the Tabris widget API only supports an
ImageValue
(Tab#image
,Action#image
,ActionSheetItem#image
,Button#image
,ToggleButton#image
,Page#image
) so the usage of custom fonts as icons is currently limited.With the support for external fonts this could be implemented with an icon font. Closing as resolved.