navigation-drawer

I want to open the drawerlist to the half of the screen for all different device. i tried hard coded values for layout_margineleft 200dp or 100dp to the drawerlist. but it doesn't work in all device it different from device to device. so how can i maintain the exactly half of the screen for drawerlist. i also tried various function like setLeft(int) etc.but some of them doesn't work due to i use minimum version 8. So please help me. thanks in advance. mDrawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); mDrawerList = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.top_sectionlist); xml for

Ideally navigation drawer should get closed once some item has been pressed from it, but its not happening automatically. How to do it ? Thanks! Vipul J Got it! private DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout; mDrawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); mDrawerLayout.closeDrawers(); Working perfectly fine. For me this one worked - mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(Gravity.START, false); Ashif closeDrawer(); // called when you want to close public void closeDrawer() { if (mDrawerLayout.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) { mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START); } } On the right bottom

In android you could set a navigation list in action bar by passing spinner adapter and OnNavigationListener. the issue is that the navigation list dont fill most of the action bar, how to make it expand like the gmail app : Example of Gmail app : My app: And here's the code : //... setting the array adapter ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST); NavigationListener navigationListener = new NavigationListener(); ListAdapter listAdapter = new ListAdapter(); actionBar.setListNavigationCallbacks(listAdapter, navigationListener); actionBar

Background In the recent months Google released the Youtube app with navigation drawer (AKA sliding menu). it has many cool features that i wish to have on an app i'm working on. the features are: touch anywhere to start sliding. moving icon on the "up" button of the action bar when switching modes. content area (the area on the right, not the menu itself) stays instead of scrolling, when sliding the menu. action bar stays instead of scrolling. content area (the area on the right, not the menu itself) changes its color when scrolling, and not the menu itself. here are screenshots to show what

I am implementing the standard navigation drawer pattern for android, with about 10 fragments the user can navigate to from the drawer. Currently, I am creating a new Fragment every time a different navigation drawer item is clicked like so: // When a new navigation item at index is clicked FragmentTransaction ft = fragmentManager.beginTransaction(); ft.setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_FADE); Fragment newFragment = null; if (index == 0) fragment = new Fragment0(); ... ft.replace(R.id.container, newFragment); ft.commit(); I have been wondering if it would be more efficient to