What is the difference between the SlidingMenu library and the Android Navigation Drawer?

Question

The SlidingMenu library is an excellent third party library and I\'ve already used it for a long time. Now I know Android provides a new navigation pattern using Navigation Draw

Answer 1

SlidingMenu library is a third party api which uses a RelativeLayout inside. The main advantage is customization according to your requirement. Buy your layouts have to be based on a viewgroup, unfortunatly this negates the optimisations.

Navigation Drawer is available in the Support Library of android it uses DrawerLayout inside. The main advantage is improved performance.