Request for putting font-icon in the bottom bar [feature_request]

[weijyewang]

Thank you for making this awesome plugin. It would be nice if this plugin can support font-icons such as font-awesome.

[rhanb]

This feature sounds simple but tricky, because both platforms requires icons to be Images, UIImage on iOS and Drawable on Android.

So the first step would be to transform a font icon to a Drawable on Android, seems possible:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33367883/how-to-use-icon-from-font-file-as-a-drawable-in-android

The same for iOS, transform a font icon to a UIImage:

• https://github.com/thii/FontAwesome.swift/blob/master/FontAwesome/FontAwesome.swift#L135

Even though it's possible, i'm not sure it would be a good idea (performance wise) to transform a font icon to an image at runtime instead of just reading one.

And this transformation shouldn't live inside this plugin anyway but as another plugin.

Just putting my thoughts here 👍