Add LineAwesome

[edeckers]

This PR adds the LineAwesome font to the package

[catalinmiron]

LGTM, @hampustagerud could you please take a look as well?
Thanks!

[hampustagerud]

LGTM 🙂

[edeckers]

This PR was approved 3 months ago, what are your plans on merging it?

[edeckers]

@catalinmiron, @hampustagerud you approved this PR almost a year ago. Today I rebased it on the most recent master, any chance you can merge it?

[edeckers]

@oblador Tonight I rebased this branch on master. I hope you can share your thoughts about merging this PR? Anything I can do to help?

[egorshulga]

@oblador we really need this, LineAwesome icons look so great! Is there a chance this PR could be merged?

[edeckers]

I just rebased this branch to make it easier to merge. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know!

[egorshulga]

@edeckers @hampustagerud we're still needing someone with write access. Is there a chance we could find someone? 😄

[egorshulga]

@catalinmiron @hampustagerud @oblador Hey guys! Is there anything we could do for this PR to be merged? 😭

[egorshulga]

@oblador @catalinmiron @hampustagerud sorry for being a little bit noisy, but we really want this PR.
Is there anyone who can help us with merging this PR?

[catalinmiron]

@egorshulga you can also integrate a custom icon font using this library. Please refer to https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons#custom-fonts also let me know if you need any help with it.

Adding LineAwesome will also increase the package/bundle size.

[egorshulga]

@catalinmiron Yeah, I tried, the main issue was that it is hard to include .ttf file into project (as far as I understand this would requrie some gradle scripting, but I am not sure). As this library provides its own framework of including fonts, it would be much easier just to include it into distribution package.

As far as I know, even with this library fonts are to be included manually, so the size of the package does not directly influence the size of the resulting app (it is still under developers control).

Anyway, I despaired to get line-awesome icons with this library, so I went into googling and found another library, which provides line-awesome icons for RN. It uses different approach (drawing via svg), but it worked, and as I was desperate to get line-awesome in my project (brain icon is so much better than in other libraries), so I went into this approach.

Still, I believe someday this PR would be dealt with (a year and a half of hanging in the nothingness!), so I would switch back to it.