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Usage

The library offers icons in the form of Android VectorDrawable, the icon names are structured as:

R.drawable.ic_fluent_[name]_[size]_[style]

• name - Name of the icon from assets that is all lowercased and underscore separated.
• size - Size of the icon that is one of 16/20/24/28/48. Note that some icons do not have all sizes available yet. Our designers are working to add missing ones to complete the collection.
• style - Style of the icon that is one of regular, filled or selector. See the section below for details.

Icon styles

The library offers icons in two styles, regular and filled

regular	filled

Stateful icon selectors

Per the Fluent mobile design language, icons are by default in regular style and switched to filled style when active. An example is the icons in the bottom tab bar:

For convenience, the library offers drawable selectors of each icon to help achieve the above effect. The three active states supported are state_activated, state_checked and state_selected.

ic_fluent_mail_24_selector.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_fluent_mail_24_filled" android:state_activated="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_fluent_mail_24_filled" android:state_checked="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_fluent_mail_24_filled" android:state_selected="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_fluent_mail_24_regular"/>
</selector>

Default color

The library assigns #212121 as the default icon color. You can however, override it by adding a fluent_default_icon_tint.xml color selector to the res/color folder of your project and replacing the color value with a desired one. For example:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:color="#8E8E8E"/>
</selector>

Right-to-left(RTL) support

When the device locale is set to a RTL language(e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), some direction-based icons, such as a left arrow, needs to be flipped. The library automatically inserts android:autoMirrored="true" to these icons, which allows the system to handle RTL layout mirroring for you. The list of icons that supports mirroring can be found in the rtl.txt file.

Tinting

With Android 5.0 (API level 21) and above, you can tint drawables with color resources or theme attributes that resolve to color resources. See the following sections to know how to apply a tint to different UI components that can host icons.

ImageView

Use the tint attribute to apply color tint to an ImageView's drawable. Since the Android framework support for tint starts from API21+, the custom attribute namespace could be used for backwards compatibility.

<ImageView
    ...
    android:src="@drawable/ic_fluent_checkmark_24_regular"
    app:tint="@android:color/white"
    android:tint="@android:color/white"/> // OK to use just the framework one too since most MSFT apps are API21+

By code, use ImageViewCompat from the AndroidX core library:

ImageViewCompat.setImageTintList(imageView, ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.WHITE));

// OK to use just the framework one too since most MSFT apps are API21+
imageView.setImageTintList(ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.WHITE));

TextView compound drawable

Use the drawableTint attribute to apply color tint to a TextView's compound drawable icon. Since the Android framework support for drawableTint starts from API24+, the custom attribute namespace could be used for backwards compatibility.

<TextView
    ...
    android:text="Done"
    android:drawableStart="@drawable/ic_fluent_checkmark_24_regular"
    app:drawableTint="@android:color/white"/>

By code, use TextViewCompat from the AndroidX core library:

TextViewCompat.setCompoundDrawableTintList(textView, ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.WHITE));

Menu item icon

Use the iconTint attribute to apply color tint to a MenuItem's icon. Since the Android framework support for iconTint starts from API26+, the custom attribute namespace could be used for backwards compatibility.

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_done"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_fluent_checkmark_24_regular"
        android:title="Done"
        app:iconTint="@android:color/white"
        app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>

By code, use MenutItemCompat from the AndroidX core library:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    ...
    MenuItem doneItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_done);
    MenuItemCompat.setIconTintList(doneItem, ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.WHITE));
    ...
}

Drawable

Drawables can be tinted by using DrawableCompat from the AndroidX core library:

Drawable icon = ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_fluent_checkmark_24_regular);

// Tint drawable with a single color
DrawableCompat.setTint(icon, Color.WHITE);
// Tint drawable with a color state list
DrawableCompat.setTintList(icon, ContextCompat.getColorStateList(this, R.color.white_selector));

Shrink resources

To maintain a lean app size by excluding any unused icons in build time, set the shrinkResources to true in your build.gradle file, as follows:

buildTypes {
    release {
        shrinkResources true
        minifyEnabled true
        proguardFiles ...
    }
}

If you prefer to only exclude the Fluent icons, please save the keep.xml file at your project's res/raw directory. Please see this Android developer guide for details about shrinking resources.