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• LandLu Member, Xamarin Team Xamurai

  October 2019 edited October 2019 Accepted Answer

  Create a custom label and adjust the text position like:

  public class ExtensionLabel : UILabel
  {
      public override void DrawText(CGRect rect)
      {
          if (Font.Name == "FontAwesome")
          {
              var newBounds = new CGRect(rect.X, rect.Y - 2, rect.Width, rect.Height);
              base.DrawText(newBounds);
          }
          else
          {
              base.DrawText(rect);
          }
      }
  }
  

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• Xamtastic Member ✭✭✭

  October 2019

  I can see what you're going for and spot on!

  However I'm not able to get that working; mostly due to PEBCAK, not sure what to do/how to use it other than putting it into iOS instance.

  Also, I need to do this with Buttons and the properties there were different so that venture didn't end well either haha

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• Xamtastic Member ✭✭✭

  October 2019

  This is what I am doing, but not sure how to override the loading of UILabel so I don't have to add a custom controller on EVERY page.

      [assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(UILabel), typeof(UILabel))]  
      namespace myApp.iOS  
      {  
          public class FontAwesome : UILabel  
          {  
              public override void DrawText(CGRect rect)
              {
                  if (Font.Name == "FontAwesome")
                  {
                      var newBounds = new CGRect(rect.X, rect.Y - 2, rect.Width, rect.Height);
                      base.DrawText(newBounds);
                  }
                  else
                  {
                      base.DrawText(rect);
                  }
              }
          }  
      }   
  

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• Xamtastic Member ✭✭✭

  October 2019

  Totally PEBCAK......I removed the "[assembly: Expor...."

  Everything works. Thanks!

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• Xamtastic Member ✭✭✭

  October 2019

  I lost the "Awesome" in Font Awesome........... custom font is gone

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