here how to create a UIImage from a font. #xamarin #ios

gistfile1.cs

public static UIImage ImageWithFont(string fontName,float fontSize,SizeF imageSize,UIColor color,string text)
		{
			if (fontName != null && text != null && color != null) {

				UIGraphics.BeginImageContextWithOptions (imageSize, false, 0.0f);
			
				NSAttributedString attrString = new NSAttributedString (text, new UIStringAttributes () {
					Font = UIFont.FromName (fontName,fontSize),
					ForegroundColor = color 
				});

				NSStringDrawingContext strContext = new NSStringDrawingContext ();
				RectangleF rectFont = attrString.GetBoundingRect (imageSize,NSStringDrawingOptions.UsesDeviceMetrics, strContext);
				attrString.DrawString (new RectangleF (imageSize.Width/2 - rectFont.Width/2,imageSize.Height/2 - rectFont.Height/2,imageSize.Width,imageSize.Height));

				UIImage image = UIGraphics.GetImageFromCurrentImageContext ();
				UIGraphics.EndImageContext ();

				return image;
			}
			return null;
		}

Your workaround works perfectly when we parse the string to UIImage. In my case, am using the UNICODE string, when I use it in the place of text - I get the exact Unicode string but not the expected icon of that UNICODE.

Do you have any idea of this?