How do I make DrawerLayout to display below the Toolbar?

Question

How to make the drawer layout be below the actionbar/toolbar? I'm using v7:21 app compat library with the new ToolBar view.

Examples that I see looks like

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/my_drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

<!-- drawer view -->
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="304dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="left|start">

    <!-- drawer content -->

</LinearLayout>

<!-- normal content view -->
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <!-- The toolbar -->
    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar  
        android:id="@+id/my_awesome_toolbar"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" />

    <!-- The rest of content view -->

</LinearLayout>  

But then the toolbar will be hidden by the drawer, which makes an animated hamburger icon (like v7.ActionBarDrawerToggle) useless since it will not be visible below the drawer, but I do want to use the new ToolBar view to support Material theme better.

So how to accomplish that? Is it possible to have DrawerLayout as a non top-level view?

Answer 1

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <!-- The toolbar -->
    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar  
        android:id="@+id/my_awesome_toolbar"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" />

    <android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/my_drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <!-- drawer view -->
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="304dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="left|start">

            <!-- drawer content -->

        </LinearLayout>

        <!-- normal content view -->
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical">



            <!-- The rest of content view -->

        </LinearLayout>  
    </android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

</LinearLayout>  

Answer 2

i don't think you can when using custom toolbar

but a work around would be to set a top_margin to drawer. (the same thing on google play store!)

<!-- drawer view -->
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_marginTop="?attr/actionBarSize"
...

if you found a better solution tell me too ;)

Answer 3

Change Your drawer layout style like as below

RelativeLayout
 ----Toolbar
 ----DrawerLayout
     ---ContentView
     ---DrawerList 

Answer 4

My solution: generate template with Android Studio 2.1.2, drawer template:

Only need three changes: set margin top in view NavigationView and delete overloap statusbar in style.xml

<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">false</item>

android:fitsSystemWindows="false"

layout main.xml set margin top get size actionbar value android:layout_marginTop="?attr/actionBarSize"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="false"
    tools:openDrawer="start">

    <include
        layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:layout_marginTop="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="false"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
        app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />

</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Answer 5

I had issues getting this to work, and it finally displayed properly. Here is the layout I used:

<LinearLayout...[add your namespaces, etc]
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:fitsSystemWindows="true">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar [your custom toolbar] />
    <android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout [your drawer layout] />
        <LinearLayout>
            [content here]
        </LinearLayout>
     <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView />
</LinearLayout>

Be careful moving the design widgets around, if one is under the wrong root tag, you'll get a

"no layout_gravity_left"

exception.

Answer 6

I have found a simpler solution: Set the DrawerLayout and NavigationView attribute:

android:fitsSystemWindows="false"

and then give marginTop to navigation view as

"?actionBarSize"

maybe your statusbar background will become transparent in that case in styles.xml add

<item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

attribute to get back the normal color or any other color you want...