'Dynamic Icons in Flutter

I retrieve some data from my DB, where I have a Column called "icon" in which I stored some Strings. For each of them, I want to pass in the Icon class of Flutter, charging the corresponding Icon. I have the single String inside

items[index]["icon"]

But I can't pass it inside Icon(items[index]["icon"]) How can I do?

Solution 1:^[1]

You can use the icons directly with their literal names by accessing the Material Icons font directly with Text() widget.

Example:

Text(
    'perm_contact_calendar',
    style: TextStyle(fontFamily: 'MaterialIcons'),
);

You may use it for custom Icon class to integrate with Material Framework smoothly, but in this case you will need a --no-tree-shake-icons flag for build command since non-constant IconData constructor breaks icon tree shaking.

Solution 2:^[2]

This might help someone in the future.

You do not need to use any Map to create an icon from dynamic name (too much copy-pasting). Instead of icon names you can use icon's numeric identifier from the Icons Class.

Example:

int iconCode = 58840;

// Will display "Up arrow" icon from the list
Icon(IconData(iconCode, fontFamily: 'MaterialIcons'));

Solution 3:^[3]

You need a mapping from string to your icon either Icons or FontAwesomeIcons or ...

Map<String, IconData> iconMapping = {
  'facebook' : FontAwesomeIcons.facebook,
  'twitter' : FontAwesomeIcons.twitter,
  'home' : FontAwesomeIcons.home,
  'audiotrack' : Icons.audiotrack,
};

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Icon(iconMapping [icon], color: HexColor(color));
}

Solution 4:^[4]

Try this out. this is exact thing you are looking for.

Widget buildRemoteIcon(){
  // var remoteIconData = new RemoteIconData(Icons.add); // -> flutter native material icons
  // var remoteIconData = new RemoteIconData("material://Icons.add"); // -> native material icons remotely (dynamically)  
  // var remoteIconData = new RemoteIconData("https://example.com/svg.svg");  // -> loading remote svg
  // var remoteIconData = new RemoteIconData("assets/icons/add.png"); // -> loading local assets 
  // var remoteIconData = new RemoteIconData("custom-namespace://CustomIcons.icon_name"); // -> (requires pre-usage definition)
  var remoteIconData = new RemoteIconData();
  return RemoteIcon(icon: remoteIconData, color: Colors.black);
}

https://github.com/bridgedxyz/dynamic/tree/master/flutter-packages/x_icon

https://pub.dev/packages/x_icon

Solution 5:^[5]

Use This Package From here you can get Material Icons + FontAwesome Icons also you just need to pass the icon name.

https://pub.dev/packages/dynamic_icons

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