I've created my own solution for this as well, as many stock solutions appeared to not work on older Android version or lacked proper instructions on how to get it to work.
My solution has the following features:
- Provides support for sliding away a view to reveal a menu that lies underneath it
- The menu can be any custom View
- The view above can be any custom View as well
- Supported on old Android versions (tested to work at least on Android 2.2)
The solution uses a custom layout, called SlidingMenuLayout, that you are expected to add 2 views to. The first view you add is the menu, the second is the main view.
The simplest way to add the layout to your existing project is to override your Activity's setContentView() method:
@Override
public void setContentView(View view) {
SlidingMenuLayout layout = new SlidingMenuLayout(this);
layout.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 0.0F));
layout.addView(new MenuView(this));
layout.addView(view);
super.setContentView(layout);
}
In this example, MenuView is the view that will actually show the menu. It is up to you to implement this view.
Finally, you can add a button (typically in the top left corner of your main view), that calls openMenu() or closeMenu() on the layout as appropriate.
The code for SlidingMenuLayout is found on the GitHub project page:
