Android Sliding Menu using Navigation Drawer(Only Activity)

In this tutorial we’ll implement a Navigation Drawer using only Activity in our android application. Android navigation drawer is a sliding menu and it’s an important UI component.

Android Navigation Drawer

Android Navigation Drawer is a sliding left menu that is used to display the important links in the application. Navigation drawer makes it easy to navigate between those links. It’s not visible by default and it needs to opened either by sliding from left or clicking its icon in the ActionBar.

In broader terms, Navigation Drawer is an overlay panel, which is a replacement of an activity screen which was specifically dedicated to show all the options and links in the application.

Example

This sample will explain how to do a Navigation Drawer using only Activities

To implement the Navigation Drawer we first need to add android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout as the root of the activity layout as shown below.

navigation_drawer.xml

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">
        <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
            android:id="@+id/idToolBar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
                app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

        </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@+id/content_frame"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent" />

    </LinearLayout>
    <!--Second child layout-->
    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        app:itemBackground="@drawable/drawer_item_bg"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_drawer_header"
        app:itemTextColor="@color/white"
        app:menu="@menu/menu_item">

    </android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

FrameLayout

FrameLayout is the place where an activity has been placed

Create menu directory in res - 

menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <group android:checkableBehavior="single">
        <item
            android:id="@+id/id_home"
            android:title="Home" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/id_profile"
            android:title="Profile" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/id_review"
            android:title="Review"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/id_testimonal"
            android:title="Testimonals"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/id_subscription"
            android:title="Subscription"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/id_logout"
            android:title="Logout"/>
  </group>
</menu>

nav_drawer_header.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="150dp"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:background="@color/white">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/headerRelativeLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="center">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:weightSum="3.5">

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="1">

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:src="@drawable/app_icon"/>

            </LinearLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="2.5"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:gravity="center">

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:textStyle="bold"
                    android:textColor="@color/colorPrimary"
                    android:textAppearance="@style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
                    android:text="MrBrown"/>

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:textAppearance="@style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"
                    android:textColor="@color/colorPrimary"
                    android:text="@string/blog"/>

            </LinearLayout>
        </LinearLayout>
    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

In drawable,

nav_drawer_header.xml

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <solid android:color="@color/colorPrimary" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:top="-2dp" android:right="-2dp" android:left="-2dp">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="@color/colorPrimary" />
            <stroke
                android:width="1dp"
                android:color="@color/white" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Add the themes in your styles.xml

<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
        <item name="titleTextColor">@android:color/white</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

    <style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

    <style name="DrawerArrowStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
        <item name="spinBars">true</item>
        <item name="color">@android:color/white</item>
    </style>
</resources>

NavigationActivity.java

public class NavigationActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    public DrawerLayout drawerLayout;
    ActionBarDrawerToggle actionBarDrawerToggle;
    Toolbar toolbar;
    NavigationView navigationView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.navigation_drawer);

        navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation_view);
        toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
        drawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        actionBarDrawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(this, drawerLayout, toolbar, R.string.drawer_open, R.string.drawer_closed);
        drawerLayout.setDrawerListener(actionBarDrawerToggle);

        navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(new NavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
                Intent anIntent;
                switch (item.getItemId()) {
                    case R.id.id_home:
                        anIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), HomeActivity.class);
                        overridePendingTransition(R.anim.fade_in, R.anim.fade_out);
                        finish();
                        startActivity(anIntent);
                        drawerLayout.closeDrawers();
                        break;
//do the same for remaining activity
                                                     }
                return false;
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onPostCreate(savedInstanceState);

        actionBarDrawerToggle.syncState();
    }
}

HomeActivity.java

public class HomeActivity extends NavigationActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        getSupportActionBar().setTitle(Constant.setactionbar_title("HOME"));
        LayoutInflater mInflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(Activity.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        View convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_home, null);
        drawerLayout.addView(convertView, 0);
    }
}

where, drawerLayout.addView(convertView, 0); is to add the activity view to drawer layout

Create your own activity_home.xml 

Now the simple Navigation Drawer has created for your application.

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Source code for NavigationDrawer.zip

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