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How to display an activity or fragment on navigationView in Android?

In Swift, we can use a Library called "SideMenu" to show a viewController on the SideMenu.
Now, I'm coding in Android. I want to display activity in the NavigationView we can only display a Menu or header.
I cannot show an activity or fragment on the NavigationView.
Can you help me or give me some advice about this problem?
ANDROID STUDIO NAVIGATION VIEW
XCODE SWIFT SIDE MENU

Android app can display one activity at once (it's changed recently but in your scenario it's still true). In your case you should inflate View or Fragment. Just put your layout or fragment inside NavigationView:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:openDrawer="start">
<include
layout="#layout/app_bar_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/nav_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
app:headerLayout="#layout/nav_header_main"
app:menu="#menu/activity_main_drawer">
<TextView
android:text="Custom View"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:background="#ff0000"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView>
</androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout>
NavigationView extends FrameLayout so if you will inflate menu it will overlap. Because of that you may want to delete:
app:headerLayout="#layout/nav_header_main"
app:menu="#menu/activity_main_drawer"

If you are using the android navigation component you can see the full detailed information to achieve this and replacing the fragments to corresponding to user clicks/choices drawer layout with navigation component
if you aren't using the android navigation component and just using the drawer layout you can see this drawer layout

Use image as item in menu for Navigation Menu Drawer

I'm creating a project with Navigation Drawer Menu in Android, however, so far the menu only shows an icon and title in the menu.
How do I change the whole menu item to become an image with text inside?
Currently: the menu is:
However, I would prefer it to be like this:

You should use listview or recycler view in your NavigationView like this:
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/navigation_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<include
android:id="#+id/Mainheader"
layout="#layout/nav_header" />
<ListView
android:id="#+id/exp_navigationmenu"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary" />
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>
After that, set data in Listview.

You may use NavigationView#addHeaderView(View) API and provide your custom view as a content of NavigationView.
The alternative is to use app:headerLayout="#layout/your_layout" through xml.

<layout_gravity="start"> doesn't work on NavigationView?

I'm trying to make a Navigation Drawer, and inside the NavigationView I've added the layout_gravity="start" attribute, but it wont hide the View. this is my code:
<RelativeLayout ... >
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:menu="#menu/navigation_menu"></android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>
</RelativeLayout>
What could be wrong? Thanks.

If you intend for the NavigationView to behave as a drawer, then the root View should be <android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>, instead of <RelativeLayout>

I hope this works for you because layout_gravity cannot be used inside Relativelayout.
<androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout>
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:menu="#menu/navigation_menu"></android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>
</androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout>

Show NavigationDrawer on top of ActionBar

I am using Androidhibe NavigationDrawer and SwipeTab with Custom Action Bar as seen here:
http://www.androidhive.info/2013/11/android-sliding-menu-using-navigation-drawer/
The NavigationDrawer is shown over the ViewPager (below the ActionBar) but I would like it to show on top of the ActionBar. How can I achieve that affect?

You can use Toolbar instead of ActionBar to achieve that.
Here is a blog post that may help you from switching over to Toolbar.
The XML for your MainActivity would look something like this:
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<include layout="#layout/toolbar"/>
<!-- As the main content view, the view below consumes the entire
space available using match_parent in both dimensions. -->
<FrameLayout android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
</LinearLayout>
<!-- android:layout_gravity="start" tells DrawerLayout to treat
this as a sliding drawer on the left side for left-to-right
languages and on the right side for right-to-left languages.
If you're not building against API 17 or higher, use
android:layout_gravity="left" instead. -->
<!-- The drawer is given a fixed width in dp and extends the full height of
the container. -->
<fragment android:id="#+id/navigation_drawer"
android:layout_width="#dimen/navigation_drawer_width"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:name="com.example.app.NavigationDrawerFragment"
tools:layout="#layout/fragment_navigation_drawer" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
The XML for my Toolbar looked like this:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"/>
I struggled with it at first, but once I switched over to using Toolbar the Navigation Drawer overlayed the Toolbar just like I wanted. If the blog post and sample code here is not enough, just let me know and I can continue to help you through it.

gmail like Progress bar functionality

I am creating a gmail like progress bar functionality. There seems to be some space between the actionbar and the progress bar.
Following is the code
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- As the main content view, the view below consumes the entire
space available using match_parent in both dimensions. -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar1"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:indeterminateOnly="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/actionBarSize" />
<ListView
android:id="#+id/left_drawer"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="#android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:background="#111"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

DrawerLayout should contain only two children: FrameLayout for your content and fragment for drawer. Thus ProgressBar should be located inside dynamically created content.

To add a navigation drawer, declare your user interface with a DrawerLayout object as the root view of your layout. Inside the DrawerLayout, add one view that contains the main content for the screen (your primary layout when the drawer is hidden) and another view that contains the contents of the navigation drawer. for more Creating a Navigation Drawer.