Custom Fonts & Font Icons/Images in Xamarin.Forms

Goodbye static images and hello font icons! That is right, I am here to show you how to reduce your development time by using font icons inside of your Xamarin.Forms applications. I also walk through how to put in any custom font into your application with just a single line of code.

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Time Code:
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - What are font icons, get them, and explore
05:05 - Importing fonts into Visual Studio
10:00 - Using custom font with FontFamily
11:55 - Using a font icon in XAML and static resources
14:30 - Using helper methods for font icons
17:15 - FontImageSource for Shell, Images, and More
19:15 - Wrap-up

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* FontAwesome: https://fontawesome.com/
* FontAwesome 2 C#: https://github.com/matthewrdev/fa2cs?...
* Icon Code Generator: https://andreinitescu.github.io/IconF...
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