Java – Font Awesome in Android ListView does not work

So I 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 my drawbacks, I see the code in the ListView as follows:

Note: Other fonts (for letters instead of icons). At work.

Is there any reason why it doesn’t work?



Obviously an XML entity. I have no reason to believe that android should be treated that way, rather than treating it as a normal string. Given your screenshots, this is clearly the case.

If you want to specify characters by giving them unicode values, the correct usage in Java is \u, like this:

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

Edit

It is also possible if your input is "f001;" And cannot be replaced by “\uf001" to decode XML entities in strings using Html.fromHtml:

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