Same Navigation Drawer in different Activities

Question

I made a working navigation drawer like it\'s shown in the tutorial on the developer.android.com website. But now, I want to use one Navigation Drawer, i created in the Navi

Answer 1

My answer is just a conceptual one without any source code. It might be useful for some readers like myself to understand.

It depends on your initial approach on how you architecture your app. There are basically two approaches.

1. You create one activity (base activity) and all the other views and screens will be fragments. That base activity contains the implementation for Drawer and Coordinator Layouts. It is actually my preferred way of doing because having small self-contained fragments will make app development easier and smoother.

2. If you have started your app development with activities, one for each screen , then you will probably create base activity, and all other activity extends from it. The base activity will contain the code for drawer and coordinator implementation. Any activity that needs drawer implementation can extend from base activity.

I would personally prefer avoiding to use fragments and activities mixed without any organizing. That makes the development more difficult and get you stuck eventually. If you have done it, refactor your code.