MultiStyle Fonts

[META-DREAMER]

react-native-vector-icons now supports multistyle fonts (e.g. FontAwesome 5 with solid variants of their icons): https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons#multi-style-fonts

However, this doesn't work in Expo vector-icons. This limits the ability to use icons like user-circle which currently only shows the outline version

[hbiede]

I think this is solved

[alexisthual]

I'm sorry, I could not find how this is solved! :blush:

In particular, this example from react-native-vector-icons using FontAwesome6 cannot be reproduced with vector-icons: https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons/blob/master/packages/fontawesome6/README.md#usage

Indeed, the two following icons end up being the same with vector-icons whereas they are different with react-native-vector-icons:

// import FontAwesome6 from '@react-native-vector-icons/fontawesome6';
import { FontAwesome6 } from '@expo/vector-icons';

const icon = <FontAwesome6 name="comments" />;
const icon_solid = <FontAwesome6 name="comments" iconStyle="solid" />;

[hbiede]

I believed them to be solved at the time in the sense that this package was supposedly slated for deprecation and removal. That seemingly never happened

[alexisthual]

Sorry, I am not sure I understand your answer! Which package was slated for deprecation? Will vector-icons support this iconStyle feature, or offer another way to display solid icons?

[hbiede]

I was told that the expo wrapper would be deprecated and that the react-native-vector-icons would support those values

[alexisthual]

Ok, thank you for the clarification!