navigation-drawer

Per Google guidelines, it is recommended you open the DrawerLayout the first time only after app is installed and opened (to show user the functionality). How would you go about doing this? It seems it would be a combination of openDrawer() method with some type of preference. I would recommend that you use the SharedPreferences for that: The basic idea is that you read the SharedPreferences and look for a boolean value that doesn't exist there at first app start. By default, you will return "true" if the value you were looking for could not be found, indicating that it is in fact the first

I have a Double Navigation Drawer I have two problems. 1) The navigation drawer icon on the left (3 bars) animate when opening or closing the navigation drawer on the right. 2) I do not know how to add the icon to the right and have it animate only for the right drawer. You need to override the onDrawerSlide method of ActionBarDrawerToggle and set the slideOffset to 0 if the drawer is right drawer. So this would disable the animation of the navigation drawer image for right drawer. @Override public void onDrawerSlide(View drawerView, float slideOffset) { if(drawerView!=null && drawerView ==

I am using a Fragement for navigation drawer and hence can't use onPostCreated to call syncState public class NavigationDrawerFragment extends Fragment{ .... Calling syncState() on activityCreated @Override public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState); // Indicate that this fragment would like to influence the set of actions in the action bar. setHasOptionsMenu(true); mDrawerToggle.syncState(); } Using the ic_drawer for icon public void setUp(int fragmentId, DrawerLayout drawerLayout) { mFragmentContainerView = getActivity()

I'm about to use one of them and yet i'm very confused. I don't know the difference. to me, both look the same. I've passed through this Difference between SlidingPaneLayout and NavigationDrawer may anyone tell the difference between them?? This is what the official Navigation Drawer ( DrawerLayout ) looks like: And this is what the SlidingPaneLayout looks like: Both serve different purposes. The DrawerLayout serves as a menu, to put it simple. The SlidingPaneLayout on the other hand is a what you would use, if the content of both your screens would interact with each other. Or to as the

CURRENT SCENARIO My app home page consists of navigation drawer, therefore I am having views loaded as fragments. I also have search icon in toolbar. I implemented it in menu.xml . Next step I implemented SearchView for search icon by following answer on this question Implementing search in Toolbar . This is working fine as search view shows and can also be dismissed. PROBLEM I can implement search query for the search view but I cannot understand how to proceed. Problem is that onCreateOptionsMenu is in Activity and all code for search view is in the Activity . What I don't understand is data

I need to put Switch inside item in navigation drawer. I'm using new design support library, but I cannot find if it is posibble at all. When using android:checkable item is just full selected and that is not what I wish. This is screenshot of what I really want. Is that possible to achieve that? Your menu item for the navigation drawer: <item android:id="@+id/nav_item1" android:icon="@drawable/ic_item1" android:title="item1" app:actionLayout="@layout/layout_switch" /> and the layout for that item: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com