How can i create a sliding drawer with menu items?

Question

How can I create a horizontal sliding drawer like the YouTube and Facebook app has.

Answer 1

This is a sliding menu, you can implement this by writing a custom view. There are a lot of good open source examples. I would recommend you to use this one.

You can use it by defining this in your Layout:

Edit:

The Android team introduced an official sliding pattern on Google IO 2013. Read everything about it here.