NavigationView menu items with counter on the right

Question

The new NavigationView in the new Design Support Library works really great.

They use \"menu-items\" to display th

Answer 1

My workaround was passing a SpannableString with a different background as new title of the MenuItem.

I known is not the best solution and it's not right-aligned but it works as a counter quite well. Something like this:

NavigationView navigation = (NavigationView)findViewById(R.id.navigation);
Menu menuNav = navigation.getMenu();
MenuItem element = menuNav.findItem(R.id.item5);
String before = element.getTitle().toString();

String counter = Integer.toString(5);
String s = before + "   "+counter+" ";
SpannableString sColored = new SpannableString( s );

sColored.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan( Color.GRAY ), s.length()-(counter.length()+2), s.length(), 0);
sColored.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan( Color.WHITE ), s.length()-(counter.length()+2), s.length(), 0);


element.setTitle(sColored);

To improve the counter, here you can find a good answer to set the corners rounded

Example: