Wish update for latest Material and FA icons?

[Dave O]

I'm working through my apps, replacing icon bitmaps with icon fonts wherever I can (an easy way to support various sizes of icons).

In B4A 8.50, I just noticed that some Material icons are missing - that is, they are available on material.io but not in the font packaged with B4A.

I know that FontAwesome also releases new versions periodically.

Will B4A keep updating these fonts to keep up? Or can I manually download an updated font from their respective websites and use it in B4A?

Thanks!

 

[Erel]

Seems like the latest version of material icons was released three years ago: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/tree/master/iconfont
I believe that it is the same as the current version.

 

[Dave O]

The reason for my post was that when I searched for a drag-and-drop icon, I found 2 hits on the Material.io website:

https://material.io/tools/icons/?search=drag&style=baseline

...but only 1 in the B4A MaterialIcons font. So I assumed B4A had an older version. Perhaps they don't reliably update the font in GitHub?

 

[Erel]

Check whether you can find the new icon in the downloadable font file.

 

[Dave O]

Nope, it's not there, so there is a delta between the downloadable font and the online resources. D'oh!

In the meantime, I'll use the drag icon that the font offers. Drag handles are still a bit varied even in Google apps.