Add more icons to the picker

AppSheet AppSheet Q&A
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AppSheet already embeds Font Awesome 5 Pro in the icon picker (you can confirm this in the browser console: the loaded font family reports “Font Awesome 5 Pro”). That means the paid Pro library is already licensed and shipping. The problem is the picker only exposes a small slice of it.

Two asks, neither of which should require buying a new license:

  1. Expose more of the Pro icons already loaded. Font Awesome 5 Pro has ~7,800+ icons across Solid, Regular, Light, and Duotone. The picker surfaces only a fraction. Making the full licensed set searchable would immediately give creators thousands more icons at zero added cost.
  2. Upgrade from v5 Pro to v6 or v7 Pro. Font Awesome is now on v7. Moving up would add thousands of newer icons and styles and modernize a set that is several major versions behind.

Bonus option: add Google Material Symbols as a second source. It’s Google’s own library, free under Apache 2.0, with 3,000+ icons that match the Workspace look.

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@Jose_Arteaga, this is a feature request. Please forward to product management.

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Are upgrades to newer versions backwards compatible? If newer revisions removed icons or the look of newer icons are sufficiently different, it might cause issues/confusion in some apps.

If there needs to be developer interaction to migrate over to newer icons, I’m not sure AppSheet is currently equipped to handle that function.

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AppSheet looks to be using a filtered down version of Font Awesome v5.
Font Awesome’s v7 and v6 are both backwards compatible with v5; keeping past icon/name pairing the same.

Font Awesome luckily built out their library to be able to be updated without this issue. I say luckily but they are aware of projects integrating their libraries in this way.