Add Support for Google Material Symbols Icon Fonts

[ravindraguptacapgemini]

Hi there, I just want to check if this library can provide support for new google font Material Symbols, Please let me know. Thanks

https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.set=Material+Symbols

Also if there is some documentation which can help in adding this support, please share.

[johnf]

@ravindraguptacapgemini I'd love to add support. It's on my list after we do the next release. but a PR would be amazing if you have time.

Check out our new monorepo at https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons/tree/monorepo

I haven't yet fleshed out the documentation on adding a new font. I'll try and attack that over the weekend.

You should take a look at fontawesome6 as a starting point. We use a generator to create these directories, but if you get it working just as a straight PR in a material-symbols directory, I'm happy to reverse engineer it back to the generator.

It will help me see if I can find common ground between it and how we do fontawesome.

[ravindraguptacapgemini]

I would love to do it, but I don't have a band width as of now. I am extremely sorry.
Can I ask you, when you are planning to start on it.

[johnf]

@ravindraguptacapgemini Probably a few months off

[rexfordessilfie]

Hello folks! I can try to take this on if that's okay. I just figured out how to do this for Lucide icons in #1630. If we are okay with the approach there, I can try do something similar for this!

I'm also happy to implement it in the monorepo setup and write documentation of the process as I go along. Let me know what you would like @johnf.

[guillaumehcht]

Hey any update on this? Have you guys figured it out?

[chanphiromsok]

Hi I success with my custom MaterialSymbols Icon here is the sample repo https://github.com/chanphiromsok/svg-to-glyphmap
for expo user you can copy font to app.config in this repo contain custom icons however this repo for my use case only you can generate your own by the way it work

Hey any update on this? Have you guys figured it out?

[chanphiromsok]

Hi guys here is the pull request for MaterialSymbols #1744