Advice: Implementation of SlidingMenu on Android (J. Feinstein)

Question

I have a problem (seriously, I do not know how to do it :D) with the implementation of SlidingMenu library (from Jeremy Feinstein... link is dowm) for Android. Is t

Answer 1

Create an Activity which extends SlidingActivity, create a Fragment for your menu and in the method onCreate add this :

FrameLayout frameLayout = new FrameLayout(this);
frameLayout.setId(ID_MENUFRAME);
setBehindContentView(frameLayout);
FragmentTransaction ft = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
MenuFragment menuFragment = new MenuFragment();
ft.replace(ID_MENUFRAME, menuFragment);
ft.commit();

where ID_MENUFRAME is an int which is not an id present in your layout (I set it to 1).
Then, if you want to open or close the menu, call :

getSlidingMenu().toggle();

And you use your activity like any other activity.
Note that you will have to customize your SlidingMenu programmatically. For example :

sm.setBehindOffsetRes(R.dimen.slidingMenu_behindOffset);
sm.setShadowWidthRes(R.dimen.slidingMenu_shadowWidth);
sm.setShadowDrawable(R.drawable.slidingmenu_shadow);