PPiAwesomeButton

UIButton category with new methods to setup a button with text + FontAwesome Icon.

Updates

26-March-2014 - Cocoapods version - 1.3.7

Added the feature to set the icon passing an UIImageView

-(void)setIconImageView:(UIImageView *)iconImageView;

Fixed issue related with vertical size of subviews

25-March-2014 - Cocoapods version - 1.3.7

Added the possibility to set the icon in UIImage format. The way to do that is just using the methods:

+(UIAwesomeButton*)buttonWithType:(UIButtonType)type text:(NSString *)text icon:(NSString *)icon attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes andIconPosition:(IconPosition)position;
-(id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame text:(NSString *)text iconImage:(UIImage *)icon attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes andIconPosition:(IconPosition)position;

Features

• Background color can be setup dependending on the UIButton State thanks to its new method: -(void)setBackgroundColor:(UIColor*)color forUIControlState:(UIControlState)state;
• UIButton can be initialized using following +(UIButton*)buttonWithType:(UIButtonType)type text:(NSString*)text icon:(NSString*)icon textAttributes:(NSDictionary*)attributes andIconPosition:(IconPosition)position; -(id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame text:(NSString*)text icon:(NSString*)icon textAttributes:(NSDictionary*)attributes andIconPosition:(IconPosition)position; where you can specify text/icon attributes using an NSDictionary ( you'll find more information in Apple Documentation. Moreover you can specify position of Icon inside UIButton thanks to parameter IconPosition (Left or Right ))
• Anytime you can change following properties of UIButton: textAttributes--(void)setTextAttributes:(NSDictionary*)attributes forUIControlState:(UIControlState)state; backgroundColor--(void)setBackgroundColor:(UIColor*)color forUIControlState:(UIControlState)state; iconPosition--(void)setIconPosition:(IconPosition)position; buttonText--(void)setButtonText:(NSString*)text; buttonIcon--(void)setButtonIcon:(NSString*)icon; buttonRadius--(void)setRadius:(CGFloat)radius;

Install

The easiest way to install PPiAwesomeButton is using CocoaPods:

1. Add the pod to podfile

pod 'PPiAwesomeButton'
pod 'FontAwesome+iOS', :git => '[email protected]:alexdrone/ios-fontawesome.git'

2. Refresh your project pods pod install

3. Add awesome font to your Info.plists setting UIAppFonts entry as array and adding FontAwesome.ttf to this array.

Example of using

Here is an example of using for generate an UIButton with Twitter design

UIButton *twitter1=[UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom text:@"Twitter" icon:@"icon-twitter" textAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:15],NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor]} andIconPosition:IconPositionLeft];
    [twitter1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:27.0f/255 green:178.0f/255 blue:233.0f/255 alpha:1.0] forUIControlState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [twitter1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:60.0f/255 green:89.0f/255 blue:157.0f/255 alpha:1.0] forUIControlState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
twitter1.frame=CGRectMake(10, 10, 120, 44);
[twitter1 setRadius:5.0];
[self.view addSubview:twitter1];

Here another one for a Pinterest button

UIButton *pinterest2=[UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom text:@"Pin it!" icon:@"icon-pinterest" textAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:32],NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor]} andIconPosition:IconPositionLeft];
    [pinterest2 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:205.0f/255 green:35.0f/255 blue:44.0f/255 alpha:1.0] forUIControlState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [pinterest2 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:244.0f/255 green:61.0f/255 blue:91.0f/255 alpha:1.0] forUIControlState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

    pinterest2.frame=CGRectMake(10, 270, 280, 50);
    [pinterest2 setRadius:0.0];
    [self.view addSubview:pinterest2];

And for Facetime too:

UIButton *facetime1=[UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom text:@"Facetime" icon:@"icon-facetime-video" textAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:15],NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor]} andIconPosition:IconPositionRight];
    [facetime1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:40.0f/255 green:219.0f/255 blue:31.0f/255 alpha:1.0] forUIControlState:UIControlStateNormal];
    facetime1.frame=CGRectMake(10, 160, 120, 44);
    [facetime1 setRadius:22.0];
    [self.view addSubview:facetime1];

--- Extra - UIAwesomeButton ---

If you've detected some misalignments in icon and text I've created a new class called UIAwesomeButton (UIView subclass) that has the same behaviour an UIButton has but implemented from zero ( and without misalignments between elements ). Here's an example of implementation into your project:

UIAwesomeButton *button4 = [[UIAwesomeButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 400, 280, 50) text:@"Test" icon:nil textAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:15],NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor],@"IconFont":[UIFont fontWithName:@"fontawesome" size:40]} andIconPosition:IconPositionLeft];
    [button4 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:205.0f/255 green:35.0f/255 blue:44.0f/255 alpha:1.0] forUIControlState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [button4 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:244.0f/255 green:61.0f/255 blue:91.0f/255 alpha:1.0] forUIControlState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
    [button4 setRadius:3.0];
    [button4 setSeparation:10];
    [button4 setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentLeft];
    [button4 setActionBlock:^{
        NSLog(@"Working!");
    }];
    [self.view addSubview:button4];

Screenshot

Attributed Strings : Attributes List

Attributes that you can apply to text in an attributed string.

NSString *const NSFontAttributeName;
NSString *const NSParagraphStyleAttributeName;
NSString *const NSForegroundColorAttributeName;
NSString *const NSBackgroundColorAttributeName;
NSString *const NSLigatureAttributeName;
NSString *const NSKernAttributeName;
NSString *const NSStrikethroughStyleAttributeName;
NSString *const NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName;
NSString *const NSStrokeColorAttributeName;
NSString *const NSStrokeWidthAttributeName;
NSString *const NSShadowAttributeName;
NSString *const NSVerticalGlyphFormAttributeName;

Full list here

Font Awesome Icons

You'll find the list of Awesome Icons here. Each icon has an identifier that you have to use in UIButton to add an Icon to your UIButton.