SF Symbols work with SpriteKit on iOS?

Hi, Can you provide more information about what kinds of things you're interested in doing by combining these two technologies?

Hi, just getting back to this project.

I was looking to use these symbols on buttons for settings, mute, exit that kind of things so I wouldn't have to create those myself.

Thanks, Patrick

I also use SF Symbols with SpriteKit for quick UI and icon prototyping. I have an SKTexture extension to create SpriteKit textures from SF Symbol on iOS:

extension SKTexture {
    convenience init?(systemName: String, pointSize: CGFloat, weight: UIImage.SymbolWeight = .regular) {
        let config = UIImage.SymbolConfiguration(pointSize: pointSize, weight: weight)
        guard let symbol = UIImage(systemName: systemName)?.applyingSymbolConfiguration(config) else { return nil }
        
        let rect = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: symbol.size)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, false, 0)
        
        guard let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() else { return nil }
        
        /// Flip the coordinate system
        context.translateBy(x: 0, y: rect.size.height)
        context.scaleBy(x: 1, y: -1)
        
        /// Generate a white image
        UIColor.white.setFill()
        context.fill(rect)
        
        context.setBlendMode(.destinationIn)
        
        if let cgImage = symbol.cgImage {
            context.draw(cgImage, in: rect)
        } else {
            return nil
        }
        
        guard let result = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext() else { return nil }
        
        self.init(image: result)
    }
}

Usage example:

let iconTexture = SKTexture(systemName: "play.fill", pointSize: 17, weight: .bold)
let sprite = SKSpriteNode(texture: iconTexture)
sprite.colorBlendFactor = 1
sprite.color = .systemBlue
addChild(sprite)