Android Navigation Drawer implemented with Activities

Question

I am developing my own Android Application and i came to a point where i have three different Activities say Activity A, Activity B and Activity C. What i want to do now is

Answer 1

You need to create a Base activity which does all the common Drawer navigation stuff . I will call this base Activity as DrawerActivity , and all other Activity should extend this DrawerActivity . So all the Activity will have one instance of Drawer Layout.

Create a common Layout with DrawerLayout and place a FrameLayout and ListView as child

Now set this Layout in onCreate() on DrawerActivity

 @Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_drawer_layout);
   // do other stuff to initialize drawer layout, add list items
  ……… 
   ……….
  // add a listener to the drawer list view 
 mLeftDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new DrawerItemClickListener());

}

Add a item click listener

  private class DrawerItemClickListener implements ListView.OnItemClickListener {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView adapterView, View view, int position, long id) {
        switch (position) {
            case 0: {
                Intent intent = new Intent(DrawerActivity.this, YourActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);
                break;
            }
            default:
                break;
        }
        mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(mLeftDrawerList);
    }
}

Finally, All the other activity will extend this DrawerActivity

 public class MainActivity extends DrawerActivity {

   @Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
   // don’t set any content view here, since its already set in DrawerActivity
   FrameLayout frameLayout = (FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.activity_frame);
    // inflate the custom activity layout
    LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    View activityView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_main, null,false);
    // add the custom layout of this activity to frame layout.
    frameLayout.addView(activityView);
    // now you can do all your other stuffs
    }
 }

You can see the complete source here https://gist.github.com/libinbensin/613dea436302d3015563