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Using a DrawerLayout without navigation functionality

I have been looking into DrawerLayout for my project's slideout menu. It seems to behave the way I want, except for one thing.
I've run a few sample projects and they all seem to have one thing in common: the DrawerLayout is always the main part of the application, as in:
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Where activity_main is:
<android.support.v4.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" />
<android.support.design.widget.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" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
Also, DrawerLayout seems to have strong ties to navigation, where it's used to jump between fragments.
My problem is, I do not wish to use this slideout menu for navigation, nor do I have any desire to make my app's current main page a Fragment. I want a slideout menu, but I will be using it for settings mostly, not to move around the app.
Is there any way to have a simple slideout menu, which behaves visually and tactically like DrawerLayout, but without the need to have all my views set as fragments of it?

I have recently done this using 1. a custom RelativeLayout class with a ViewTreeObserver referencing a custom X or Y property (for drawer you would use X) 2. objectAnimator XML referencing same custom property 3. Fragment class for the UI itself, using the custom Layout class 4. use setCustomAnimations method of getFragmentManager to show / hide the menu.
Here's an example, just change it to horizontal
Fragment Translation Animation for a Menu

how to make hamburger menu fully visible

by default half of hamburger is shown, as seen at the top left corner of the screenshot. I want to display full hamburger. code is taken from https://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/nav-drawer.html. how can I do this?

Seems you are using very old technique to create Navigation Drawer. Its around 4 years old code and seems perfect regarding old version.
FYI, previously this kind of UI was done using DrawerLayout with ListView. But now android itself officially introduced sliding panel menu by introducing a newer concept called Navigation Drawer in which we combine DrawerLayout and NavigationView to achieve the desired output.
How to make hamburger menu fully visible?
SOLUTION:
Use AppCompatActivity instead of Activity and use AppCompat theme to achieve your desired output.
Use NavigationView instead of ListView.
Here is an example of NavigationView:
<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"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<!-- Your contents -->
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/navigation"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:menu="#menu/my_navigation_items" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
Here is a very good tutorial: Android Sliding Menu using Navigation Drawer
Hope this will help~

Double Drawer in android [duplicate]

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Android - Is Navigation Drawer from right hand side possible?
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Closed 6 years ago.
I'm working on this project, and i need to create a double drawer app, it's possible to modify the navigation drawer so it can work both sides? or do I created a double drawer without using the navigation drawer.

try Sliding menu lib
SlidingMenu
You will have to implement the button feature yourself but it shouldn't be too hard!
EDIT:
An example:
SlidingMenu menuS = new SlidingMenu(this);
menuS.setMode(SlidingMenu.LEFT_RIGHT);
menuS.setMenu(R.layout.slideout_list);
menuS.setSecondaryMenu(R.layout.slideout_list2);
As the code shows you need to set the mode to LEFT_RIGHT and must specify a layout for both the left menu (setMenu()) and the right menu (setSecondaryMenu()) along with the other options specifying menu size and shadows etc.

If your navigation drawers needs to display different data (why would you display the same data from the right and the left?) like a navigation on the left and a search filter on the right. You'd better use 2 different drawers, each one with his own data / behaviour.
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
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:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<include layout="#layout/content_main_activity"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<android.support.design.widget.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_ad_list"
app:menu="#menu/activity_main_navigation_menu"
headerLayout="#layout/nav_header_ad_list"
menu="#menu/activity_main_navigation_menu"
tools:layout_gravity="start"
/>
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/activity_main_search_filter"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
android:layout_gravity="end"
tools:layout_gravity="end"
/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

You have to combine some of the methodology. like you have to implement fragment in that navigation view portion in navigation drawer layout. second there is no way both drawer can be opened at same time so implement one fragment over there and on the basis of different click event open drawer layout with different gravity value (GravityCompat.START, GravityCompat.END).
like from drawer button open drawer from left and from filter button open drawer from right and load different fragment view on the basis of that. I hope it will serve your purpose.

Permanent NavigationView loose focus after an item is selected

I started a project with a Navigation Drawer from the basic template of Android Studio. The only modification I made was to display it as permanent in order to have a tablet/TV layout.
To achieve this, the only modification I made was in the xml layout. This allow the NavigationView to be always visible.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/nav_view"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
app:headerLayout="#layout/nav_header_main"
app:menu="#menu/activity_main_drawer" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<include
layout="#layout/app_bar_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="Content will come here" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I also put the project on Github, so anyone can test it.
PROJECT DEMO ON GITHUB
https://github.com/ChristopheVersieux/NavFocus
WHAT IS HAPPENING
My issue comes when I start selecting items on the drawer with the D-pad.
Once an item is selected, the focus is completely lost. Trying to get back to the Drawer and get focus seems very hard and I have to try several times with right/left arrows
WHAT IS EXPECTED:
Drawer should keep focus, or focus should be easy to bring back to the Drawer.
WHAT I TRIED:
The simplest Idea I had was to force the Drawer to get focus again, but this code doesn't change anything:
navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(new NavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem menuItem) {
menuItem.setChecked(true);
//This is where I will replace the Fragments in the right area.
navigationView.clearFocus();
navigationView.requestFocus();
return true;
}
});
Thank a lot for your help.

I would start by removing android:layout_gravity="start"
This is simply not needed as its parent is a horizontal LinearLayout.
The Navigation Drawer must be permanently visible on Tablets and TV. They stay hidden for mobile. These are part of the Material Design guidelines.
This requires quite a different setup compared to what I see in your project on GitHub. Which includes supplying different resources using qualifiers.
This tutorial on Navigation Drawer (Design Support) will help you with exactly that setup, as per the latest Material Design guidelines. Alternatively the project files for the tutorial can be found on GitHub.
UPDATE:
As pointed out, Support library v24 creates issues with the dpad. Reverting to v23 works just fine.

How to create sliding layout like in Google Drive tablet app or Google+ notifications?

I'd like to create an extra-information view similar to that of the Google Drive app (below) on a tablet. When the info button is clicked, this view slides in from the rightcontaining a layout. Another example would be the Google+ app with its notifications slide-out panel:. The SlidingLayer by 6Wunderkinder almost works, but doesn't fade a semi-black background over the views behind the "drawer" and I haven't found another library that does this.
If anybody has any suggestions/solutions please let me know!
Also, I've already looked at this question and none of the answers suggested there are correct either.

For posterity, here's the answer to this question. As Steve Benett's suggestion led me to discover, the correct way to do this is to use two DrawerLayouts, nested within each other like so:
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/drawer_navigation_bar"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
android:id="#+id/drawer_sidebar"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_main_content"
android:name="MainContentFragment"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent" />
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_sidebar"
android:name="SidebarFragment"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="end" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_navigation_bar"
android:name="NavigationFragment"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_gravity="start" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
The innermost DrawerLayout contains the main content of the Activity, whether it be a fragment or some other layout components. fragment_sidebar is the fragment that will be swiped out from the right. Then, on the top-level DrawerLayout you have the fragment_nagivation_bar which houses the left Drawer's ListView or whatever.
Then, in the Activity Java code you have:
mDrawerLayoutLeft= (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_navigation_bar);
mDrawerLayoutRight = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_sidebar);
mDrawerLayoutLeft.setDrawerShadow(R.drawable.drawer_shadow, GravityCompat.START);
mDrawerLayoutRight.setDrawerShadow(R.drawable.sidebar_shadow, GravityCompat.END);
An optional addition (but recommended, for consistency of UX) is to hide the other Drawer when one is opened, so your screen doesn't consist solely of Drawers.
I hope this has helped somebody!

This is the DrawerLayout. Have a look at the design guide, which illustrates the behavior well.
If you want to use / customize the "semi-black background" use DrawerLayout.setDrawerShadow() with a drawable. Google hands out a set of drawables here. Download the ActionBar Icon Pack and look for the drawable_shadow.9.png.
If you want that the menu appears from the right, set android:layout_gravity="end" as a property in the second child of the layout.