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

A variant on Grogory's solution:

Instead of subclassing I call the following utility method right after I grab a reference to the drawer layout:

/**
 * The specs tell that
 * 

 * 
Navigation Drawer should be at most 5*56dp wide on phones and 5*64dp wide on tablets.
 * 
Navigation Drawer should have right margin of 56dp on phones and 64dp on tablets.
 * 
 * yet the minimum margin is hardcoded to be 64dp instead of 56dp. This fixes it.
 */
public static void fixMinDrawerMargin(DrawerLayout drawerLayout) {
  try {
    Field f = DrawerLayout.class.getDeclaredField("mMinDrawerMargin");
    f.setAccessible(true);
    f.set(drawerLayout, 0);

    drawerLayout.requestLayout();
  } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
}