Navigation drawer Items not registering click event

Question

I am struggling to get the Navigation drawer items to register and start and intent for a new activity. The drawer opens fine and is displayed correctly but nothing happens

Answer 1

It seems like the your DrawerItemClickListener.class does not work as the only time the selectItem() method is called is at the end of your activities onCreate() at selectItem(0);

Instead of calling

mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new DrawerItemClickListener());

you can use this as a parameter and let you Activity implement the ListView.OnItemClickListener itself.

public class MyActivity extends Activity implements ListView.OnItemClickListener {

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        [...]
        mDrawerList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.left_drawer);

        [...]
        mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(this);
        [...]
     }

    [...]    

    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) {
        selectItem(position);
    }

    private void selectItem(int position) {
        switch (position) {
            case 1:
                [...]
                startActivity(new Intent(this, SplashScreen.class));
                break;
            [...]
            default:
            break;
        }
        [...]
    }
    [...]
}