Use MaterialDesignIcons instead of MaterialCommunityIcons

[elibroftw]

I recently migrated react-native-vector-icons and MaterialCommunityIcons is no longer in the readme. Instead MaterialDesignIcons is there, which I have supplied to the paper provider. This should be the new default going forward.

[faljabi]

Can we have a release for this? As we want to migrate to the new way of using vector icons

[rnigro-rwb]

I think the issue with doing this is that this package also relies on @expo/vector-icons if you are using expo. That package would need to be update first.

What I did was patch the package by replacing

'react-native-vector-icons/MaterialCommunityIcons'

with

'@react-native-vector-icons/material-design-icons'

in 2 places in MaterialCommunityIcon.tsx

[rnigro-rwb]

This is a duplicate of #4471

I would recommend the solution provided by @onmotion that uses babel-plugin-module-resolver is much simpler.
#4471 (comment)