Full width Navigation Drawer

Question

I\'d like to create a full width navigation drawer. Setting layout_width to match_parent on @+id/left_drawer yields in width of about

Answer 1

Because all these answers did not work on OS 6.0.1, I'll post here the solution that worked for me in combination with DrawerLayout + NavigationView.

So all what I do is change the width of the NavigationView programatically:

mNavigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nv_navigation);
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
DrawerLayout.LayoutParams params = (DrawerLayout.LayoutParams) mNavigationView.getLayoutParams();
params.width = metrics.widthPixels;
mNavigationView.setLayoutParams(params);

This works for all screen sizes.