I want to include a drawer that slides up (using gestures) over the main activity in my app, but I don't know how I would implement this.
I've tried searching, but it seems as though Sliding Drawer was deprecated in API 17. I do not want to use third party libraries.
How should I go about this? Will a fragment with custom animations work?
You can use the design support library to help you achieve this.
There's more on the blog post but essentially you would be using a BottomSheetBehavior on a CoordinatorLayout (the root ViewGroup of that layout).
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I have implemented the AndroidSlidingUpPanel library in my app, everything works but i want the sliding layout to slide until it goes under my appbar.
Thank you
Link to the Library
You can Use toolbar instead of appbar, You will find examples in google easily.
I made an app using the library: jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu. But this library is a little bit old and I want to use Appcompat library.
So my question is if it is possible to use the drawerLayout for sliding the content away and making the menu fixed? istead of the normal drawerLayout implementation, where the Menu slides in front of the content view.
Like in the facebook app:
Brother for that you need to create your own library just like Jeremy Feinstein who created SlidingMenu library ,google'android uses the concept of navigation drawer (https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation-drawer.html) which is similar to the one created by Jeremy. Creating a drawer layout with the menu fixed is a tough concept and is not available on the internet due to facebook copyright issues; So I am really sorry to say you have to be satisfied with the SlidingMenu library you presently have.
I want to use sliding drawer from left to right ?
So can you tell me anybody how it is possible? and also use this drawer to all activity in my project.
Use the concept of viewpager.You can find doc and example below...
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Example
Check that library. API 6+ (even less, not quite sure)
https://github.com/6wunderkinder/android-sliding-layer-lib
You can attach a layer to any part of the screen with the addition that you can swipe the layout directly in and out, unlike the SlidingDrawer in which you just can drag from a small piece of UI (drawer).
You could also use the new NavigationDrawer pattern from Google.
http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation-drawer.html
I need to incorporate a youtube like drawer navigation drawer for both(left,right) sides. AFAIK android apis don't provide means for the right-to-left drawer functionality. There're quite a lot of implementations out there(sliding menu) which do.
This sliding menu feature seems to present a performance issue. Should I try to rewrite original NavigationDrawer, which I expect to be the least performance-impact solution, or there is another performance-optimal library?
Thanks.
I would choose NavigationDrawer. I used both and I find NavigationDrawer smoother. If you try to mimic google UX then with NavigationDrawer should be enought for your needs.
I recently made a project/demo to implement NavigationDrawer with ActionBarSherlock for pre Honeycomb devices because I need for an app.
SherlockNavigationDrawer impl
Another thing to take in mind is that if you use NavigationDrawer try to avoid Tabs because all the tabs items could fit perfectly as a listview in NavigationDrawer.
Actually NavigationDrawer supports drawers on both edges.
You have to supply the two drawer views inside your layout xml; one with gravity:left and one with gravity:right.
Then, in your Activity you call setDrawerLockMode(DrawerLayout.LOCK_MODE_UNLOCKED) on your DrawerLayout object.
This will enable swiping either from left or right edge.
#Michał The question is actually implementation of both left as well as the right drawer.
#midnight NavigationDrawer right now only implements one-sided menu which you can place either on the left or the right. If you want to implement the other pane also you can make your content layout as SlidingPaneLayout.
This was also added to the latest support library along with the NavgationDrawer. For an implemented example you can look at the newest Hangouts app on how they are using it. This layout will probably suit your purposes better rather than rewriting the NavigationDrawer. In any case i'd hold off on re-writing it since it is the first release of the Layout and may undergo changes fairly quickly.
Since the last version of SupportLibrary there is a NavigationDrawer in Android.
I don't think these examples use viewpager, but visually they look a little like viewpager.
See Evernote's settings:
http://1.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/howto/evernote-screenshots-120524.jpg
And Pocket Casts' handheld control pane:
http://www.shiftyjelly.com/android/pocketcasts
Basically, a panel is swiped in from left, but the left edge of the previous panel is still visible.
So my question is, is this UI pattern featured in an example you have seen, or did these two make it out of whole cloth and now I have to, too?
Edit for posterity:
As of Google I/O 2013, this is now built into Android. They call it the Navigation Drawer: http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/nav-drawer.html
https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu
This library might help you out. I think this is what you're trying to achieve.
EDIT
I've updated the link to another SlidingMenu library but as of 2015/09/16, I wouldn't use the library referenced here anyway. Google has provided the DrawerLayout in the v4 support library to achieve this. Inside the drawer, for a more standard structured navigation, the design support library has also provided the NavigationView that can be placed inside the DrawerLayout and use standard menu resource to inflate the items contained within. This SO can help out with the details of the implementation.