You surely would like your app to be able to display the icons even when the user does not have an internet connection.

let´s say it differently :

how do you use google material icons without a

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet"> 

There is several approaches. But here are my favourite ones:

First approach :

• open the material icon source link: https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons

you will see this stylesheet code:

/* fallback */
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Material Icons';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/materialicons/v67/flUhRq6tzZclQEJ-Vdg-IuiaDsNc.woff2) format('woff2');
}

.material-icons {
  font-family: 'Material Icons';
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  font-size: 24px;
  line-height: 1;
  letter-spacing: normal;
  text-transform: none;
  display: inline-block;
  white-space: nowrap;
  word-wrap: normal;
  direction: ltr;
  -webkit-font-feature-settings: 'liga';
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

copy it & paste in the new file material-icons.scss

• open the woff font url link: https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/materialicons/v67/flUhRq6tzZclQEJ-Vdg-IuiaDs

and download the woff2 file.

• Then I replace the woff2 file path with the new one in material-icons.scss file

• Then add the following to styles.css:

@import "material-icons";

That makes thing works for me. 🙂

Alternative:

First install the NPM:

npm i material-icons

Then add the following to styles.css:

// import material icons
@import '~material-icons/iconfont/material-icons.scss';