Navigation Drawer item background colour for selected item

Question

I used Android Studio to implement the Navigation Drawer and I can\'t get the blue colour that is used to show which section we\'re currently in to change.

I\'ve tri

Answer 1

This worked for me : implemented menu drawer not by populating the navigation view with list, but with menu items.

created a drawable like this :

and in onCreate method , set the id of the menu item which corresponds to selected activity as checked. and implement the drawable selector file to your navigation drawer like this

    app:itemBackground="@drawable/drawer_menu_selector"

fyi : need to define your 'app' namespace.