React Native Vector Icons

Elevate your React Native applications with the power of customizable vector icons. Ideal for embellishing buttons, logos, and navigation or tab bars, these icons seamlessly integrate into your projects. Their versatility makes extension and styling effortless.

For the integration of .svg files natively, you can explore react-native-vector-image.

Tip

If you are still using the old single package react-native-vector-icons visit https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons/tree/10.x. To migrate to the package-per-icon-set approach, see MIGRATION.md.

Table of Contents

• Sponsorship
• Available Icon Sets
• Installation
• Setup
• Icon Component
• Usage as PNG Image/Source Object
• Multi-Style Fonts
• Custom Fonts
• Animation
• Dynamic icon font loading
• Usage Examples
• Changelog
• License

Sponsorship

Should you find this library beneficial, kindly contemplate the option of sponsoring.

Available Icon Sets

Explore all icons.

RNVI comes with the following supported icons. You can search NPM for third party icons.

Actively maintained

• AntDesign from Ant Group (v4.4.2 with 449 icons)
• Feather created by Cole Bemis & Contributors (v4.29.2 featuring 287 icons)
• FontAwesome designed by Fonticons, Inc. (v7.2.0 featuring 2,806 free and 75,767 pro icons)
• Foundation by ZURB, Inc. (v3.0 with 283 icons)
• Ionicons crafted by Ionic (v8.0.9 containing 1,357 icons)
• MaterialDesignIcons from MaterialDesignIcons.com (v7.4.47 including 7448 icons)
• Octicons designed by GitHub, Inc. (v19.23.1 with 370 icons)
• Lucide designed by Lucide, (v1.7.0 with 1,941 icons)

No longer maintained upstream

• Entypo by Daniel Bruce (v1.0.1 with 411 icons)
• EvilIcons designed by Alexander Madyankin & Roman Shamin (v1.10.1 with 70 icons)
• FontAwesome 4 by Fonticons, Inc. (v4.7.0 containing 785 icons)
• FontAwesome 5 from Fonticons, Inc. (v5.15.4 offering 1611 free and 7869 pro icons)
• FontAwesome 6 designed by Fonticons, Inc. (v6.7.2 featuring 2060 free and 52663 pro icons)
• Fontisto created by Kenan Gündoğan (v3.0.4 featuring 617 icons)
• MaterialIcons by Google, Inc. (v4.0.0 featuring 2234 icons)
• SimpleLineIcons crafted by Sabbir & Contributors (v2.5.5 with 189 icons)
• Zocial by Sam Collins (v1.1.1 with 100 icons)

Migration

See MIGRATION.md if you are migrating from react-native-vector-icons to the package-per-icon-set approach or between major versions.

Installation

1. Install the packages for the icons you want to use

npm install @react-native-vector-icons/fontawesome-free-solid @react-native-vector-icons/evil-icons

2. Depending on the platform you're targeting (iOS/Android/Windows), follow the appropriate setup instructions below.
3. If you are using one of the following fonts, refer to their guides for further instructions

• Fontello
• Icomoon

Setup

Refer to the guide for Expo, React Native or Web for further instructions.

Font location customisation

For fonts like the FontAwesome Pro as well as Fontello and Icomoon where you provide the fonts, the default location for the font files is rnvi-fonts in the same directory as your package.json. This can be customized by setting the fontDir property in your package.json file.

{
  "reactNativeVectorIcons": {
    "fontDir": "src/rnvi-fonts"
  }
}

Icon Component

You can either use one of the bundled icons above or roll your own custom font.

import { FontAwesomeFreeSolid } from "@react-native-vector-icons/fontawesome-free-solid";
// or use the static version to embed the font at build time instead of loading it at runtime
import { FontAwesomeFreeSolid } from "@react-native-vector-icons/fontawesome-free-solid/static";

<FontAwesomeFreeSolid name="rocket" size={30} color="#900" />;

Props

Any Text props and the following:

Prop	Description	Default
size	Size of the icon, can also be passed as fontSize in the style object.	12
name	What icon to show, see Icon Explorer app or one of the links above.	None
color	Color of the icon.	Inherited

Styling

Since Icon builds on top of the Text component, most style properties will work as expected, you might find it useful to play around with these:

• backgroundColor
• borderWidth
• borderColor
• borderRadius
• padding
• margin
• color
• fontSize

By combining some of these you can create for example :

Usage as PNG Image/Source Object

Convenient way to plug this in into other components that rely on bitmap images rather than scalable vector icons.

You need to use Expo (with expo-font installed) or install @react-native-vector-icons/get-image to use this feature.

Both methods return an ImageResult object ({ uri, width, height, scale }) that can be passed directly as an Image source.

const source = Icon.getImageSourceSync('user', 20, 'red');
// or with an options object:
const source = Icon.getImageSourceSync('user', { size: 20, color: 'red', lineHeight: 28 });

return <Image source={source} />;

Alternatively you may use the async method Icon.getImageSource.

const source = await Icon.getImageSource('user', 20, 'red');
// or with an options object:
const source = await Icon.getImageSource('user', { size: 20, color: 'red' });

Keep in mind that Icon.getImageSourceSync is blocking and might incur performance penalties. Subsequent calls will use cache, however.

Static methods

All static methods from Icon are supported by multi-styled fonts.

Method	Description
getImageSource	Returns a promise resolving to an ImageResult of a bitmap version of the icon. Usage: const source = await Icon.getImageSource(name, { size, color, lineHeight })
getImageSourceSync	Same as getImageSource but synchronous. Usage: const source = Icon.getImageSourceSync(name, { size, color, lineHeight })

Custom Fonts

The best approach is to use our icon generator to create your own icon package.

See CREATE_FONT_PACKAGE.md to learn how to create your own font packages.

You can also use createIconSet() directly in your project. This returns your own custom font based on the glyphMap where the key is the icon name and the value is either a UTF-8 character or its character code. postScriptName is the name of the postscript font. Open the font in https://fontdrop.info/, Font Book.app or similar to learn the name. Also pass the fontFileName argument for Android support.

import { createIconSet } from "@react-native-vector-icons/common";
const glyphMap = { "icon-name": 1234, test: "∆" };

// use createIconSet() with object parameter
// or use positional parameters for compatibility with version <= 10: `createIconSet(glyphMap, fontFamily[, fontFile])`
const Icon = createIconSet(glyphMap, {
  postScriptName: "FontName",
  fontFileName: "font-name.ttf",
  fontSource: require("../fonts/font-name.ttf"), // optional, for dynamic loading. Can also be a local file uri.
});

If you aren't using dynamic font loading you need to make sure your font is copied into your bundle.

Animation

React Native comes with an amazing animation library called Animated. To use it with an icon, simply create an animated component with this line: const AnimatedIcon = Animated.createAnimatedComponent(Icon). You can also use the higher level animation library react-native-animatable.

Dynamic icon font loading

TL;DR we recommend you use the /static import if you use Development builds and the root import when using Expo Go.

Icon fonts can be made available statically at build time or loaded dynamically at runtime. The root (non-/static) import uses dynamic loading. If you don't need dynamic loading, use the /static imports (e.g. "@react-native-vector-icons/ionicons/static").

See the Expo setup guide for more details, config plugins, and the dynamic loading API.

Usage Examples

Icon Explorer

Try the IconExplorer project in Examples/IconExplorer folder, there you can also search for any icon.

Basic Example

import { IonIcons } from "@react-native-vector-icons/ionicons/static";

const ExampleView = () => (
  <IonIcons name="ios-person" size={30} color="#4F8EF7" />
);

Inline Icons

import { Text } from "react-native";
import { IonIcons } from "@react-native-vector-icons/ionicons/static";

const ExampleView = (props) => (
  <Text>
    Lorem <IonIcons name="ios-book" color="#4F8EF7" /> Ipsum
  </Text>
);

Testing

When running tests with jest you will need to mock out the native code loading to prevent errors.

In jest.config.js add

// Mock out font loading
moduleNameMapper: {
  '\\.(ttf)$': '<rootDir>/__mocks__/file-mock.js',
}

Create __mocks__/file-mock.js:

module.exports = {};

Create __mocks__/@react-native-vector-icons/common.js:

// Mock the entire common library so there are no native module loading errors
module.exports = {
  createIconSet: () => "icon",
};

Changelog

License

This project is licenced under the MIT License.

Any bundled fonts are copyright to their respective authors and mostly under MIT or SIL OFL.