font ionicons not found Expo SDK36 with NativeBase 2.13.8 and expo-font 8.1.0
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Issue Description
node, npm, react-native, react and native-base version, expo version if used, xcode version
node: v13.9.0 npm: 6.14.4 react-native: 0.61.5 native-base: 2.13.8 expo: 36.0.0
Expected behaviour
Actual behaviour
Hello guys,
I’m facing an issue with expo and native-base:
fontFamily "ionicons" is not a system font and has not been loaded through Font.loadAsync.
Do you have any solutions about this problem? I’ve already followed instructions to install native-base
Thanks
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Is the bug present in both iOS and Android or in any one of them?
Android and iOS
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Same issue after running expo upgrade from version 35 to version 36
node: v12.6.0 npm: 6.9.0 react-native: https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-36.0.1.tar.gz native-base: 2.13.8 expo: 36.0.2 expo-font: 8.0.0
Prints out
8 Fonts Loaded
Edit: found a solution from https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/5507 Need to install expo-font dependency and run
rm -rf ./node_modules/expo/node_modules/expo-font/
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