diff --git a/src/Android/Android.csproj b/src/Android/Android.csproj
index 0dada7d71..5912ca8fc 100644
--- a/src/Android/Android.csproj
+++ b/src/Android/Android.csproj
@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
-    <None Include="Resources\AboutResources.txt" />
-    <None Include="Assets\AboutAssets.txt" />
+    <AndroidAsset Include="Assets\FontAwesome.ttf" />
     <None Include="Properties\AndroidManifest.xml" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Android/Assets/AboutAssets.txt b/src/Android/Assets/AboutAssets.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ca673c644..000000000
--- a/src/Android/Assets/AboutAssets.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-Any raw assets you want to be deployed with your application can be placed in
-this directory (and child directories) and given a Build Action of "AndroidAsset".
-
-These files will be deployed with you package and will be accessible using Android's
-AssetManager, like this:
-
-public class ReadAsset : Activity
-{
-    protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
-    {
-        base.OnCreate (bundle);
-
-        InputStream input = Assets.Open ("my_asset.txt");
-    }
-}
-
-Additionally, some Android functions will automatically load asset files:
-
-Typeface tf = Typeface.CreateFromAsset (Context.Assets, "fonts/samplefont.ttf");
diff --git a/src/Android/Assets/FontAwesome.ttf b/src/Android/Assets/FontAwesome.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..35acda2fa
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diff --git a/src/Android/Resources/AboutResources.txt b/src/Android/Resources/AboutResources.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index cb30f20b1..000000000
--- a/src/Android/Resources/AboutResources.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-Images, layout descriptions, binary blobs and string dictionaries can be included 
-in your application as resource files.  Various Android APIs are designed to 
-operate on the resource IDs instead of dealing with images, strings or binary blobs 
-directly.
-
-For example, a sample Android app that contains a user interface layout (main.xml),
-an internationalization string table (strings.xml) and some icons (drawable-XXX/icon.png) 
-would keep its resources in the "Resources" directory of the application:
-
-Resources/
-    drawable-hdpi/
-        icon.png
-
-    drawable-ldpi/
-        icon.png
-
-    drawable-mdpi/
-        icon.png
-
-    layout/
-        main.xml
-
-    values/
-        strings.xml
-
-In order to get the build system to recognize Android resources, set the build action to
-"AndroidResource".  The native Android APIs do not operate directly with filenames, but 
-instead operate on resource IDs.  When you compile an Android application that uses resources, 
-the build system will package the resources for distribution and generate a class called
-"Resource" that contains the tokens for each one of the resources included. For example, 
-for the above Resources layout, this is what the Resource class would expose:
-
-public class Resource {
-    public class drawable {
-        public const int icon = 0x123;
-    }
-
-    public class layout {
-        public const int main = 0x456;
-    }
-
-    public class strings {
-        public const int first_string = 0xabc;
-        public const int second_string = 0xbcd;
-    }
-}
-
-You would then use R.drawable.icon to reference the drawable/icon.png file, or Resource.layout.main 
-to reference the layout/main.xml file, or Resource.strings.first_string to reference the first 
-string in the dictionary file values/strings.xml.
diff --git a/src/App/MainPage.xaml b/src/App/MainPage.xaml
index c135c150b..88351115c 100644
--- a/src/App/MainPage.xaml
+++ b/src/App/MainPage.xaml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 <ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
              xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
-             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:App"
              x:Class="Bit.App.MainPage">
 
     <StackLayout>
@@ -9,6 +8,15 @@
         <Label Text="Welcome to Xamarin.Forms!" 
            HorizontalOptions="Center"
            VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand" />
+        <Label Text="&#xf2b9;"
+           HorizontalOptions="Center"
+           VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand">
+            <Label.FontFamily>
+                <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="x:String"
+                    Android="FontAwesome.ttf#FontAwesome"
+                    iOS="FontAwesome" />
+            </Label.FontFamily>
+        </Label>
     </StackLayout>
 
 </ContentPage>
diff --git a/src/iOS/Info.plist b/src/iOS/Info.plist
index 905dda7fc..8807e9ef5 100644
--- a/src/iOS/Info.plist
+++ b/src/iOS/Info.plist
@@ -36,5 +36,9 @@
 	<string>Assets.xcassets/AppIcon.appiconset</string>
 	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
 	<string>2.0.0</string>
+	<key>UIAppFonts</key>
+	<array>
+		<string>FontAwesome.ttf</string>
+	</array>
 </dict>
 </plist>
diff --git a/src/iOS/Resources/FontAwesome.ttf b/src/iOS/Resources/FontAwesome.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..35acda2fa
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diff --git a/src/iOS/iOS.csproj b/src/iOS/iOS.csproj
index 6059350bb..e9d9c4dab 100644
--- a/src/iOS/iOS.csproj
+++ b/src/iOS/iOS.csproj
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
     <None Include="Entitlements.plist" />
     <None Include="Info.plist" />
     <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
+    <BundleResource Include="Resources\FontAwesome.ttf" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <InterfaceDefinition Include="Resources\LaunchScreen.storyboard" />