font awesome in android list view not working

android, fonts, java, listview

Solution



is apparently an XML entity. I have no reason to believe android should treat the as such, and not as a plain string of characters. Which apparently it does, given your screenshot.

If you want to specify characters by giving their unicode value, the correct usage in java is `\u`, like so :

holder.name.setText("\uf001");

Edit

It is also possible, if your input is `"&#f001;"` and cannot be replaced by `"\uf001"` to use `Html.fromHtml` to decode the XML entities in the String:

holder.name.setText(Html.fromHtml("&#f001;"));

Problem

So I have created this custom array adapter: ``` View row = convertView; ViewHolder holder; iconFont = Typeface.createFromAsset(activity.getAssets(), "fontawesome-webfont.ttf" ); if (row == null) { LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); row = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.event_type_list_row, null); holder = new ViewHolder(); holder.icon = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.EventTypeListRow_icon_EditText); holder.name = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.EventTypeListRow_name_EditText); row.setTag(holder); } else { holder = (ViewHolder) row.getTag(); } final EventTypeDataObj eventType = data.get(position); if (eventType != null) { //holder.icon.setText(eventType.getIconCode()); f02c; holder.icon.setText(""); holder.icon.setTypeface(iconFont); holder.name.setText(""); holder.name.setTypeface(iconFont); } return row; ``` I don't see the I cons, I see the code in the list view like here: Note: other fonts (which works on letters not icons). are working. Is there amy reason it is not working?

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