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Adding a Fixed/Static Header to a Navigation DrawerLayout

Like many apps, I use the DrawerLayout code 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="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<!-- The main content view -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<!-- The navigation drawer -->
<ListView
android:id="#+id/left_drawer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="#android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:background="#FFFFFF" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
I have some user information above the ListView so I use the addHeaderView(). However, this scrolls with the list. I would like the list to appear that it is scrolling underneath it and the header stays fixed at the top.
Is this possible? I have tried by wrapping the ListView inside a LinearLayout with the header code inside that layout as well. This completely broke the app. Are there any other ways? I have actually seen Google do this in at least one of their apps (youtube).

Wrapping your List in some kind of layout is the way to go. Maybe you just missed something. Try 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="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<!-- The main content view -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<!-- The navigation drawer -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/left_drawer"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="right">
<!--SOME HEADER-->
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="#android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:background="#FFFFFF" />
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

set navigation drawer above view pager dynamically

I just want to put my navigation drawer on the top of my app, right after the navigation drawer my sliding menu should be displayed. So I figured out to do this with "android:layout_marginTop="xdp"/>". When I don't do this my nav drawer and the sliding tabs will overlap each other.
So my question is how can I do this dynamically with xml e.g. how can I get the height of the navdrawer to set the correct size for the marginTop?
Here is my xml-layout:
<?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="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<com.starpedia.marvin.swc_pedia.FragmentNavigationDrawer
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
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:fitsSystemWindows="true"
android:orientation="vertical">
<!-- The ActionBar -->
<include
layout="#layout/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<!-- The main content view -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/flContent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- The navigation drawer -->
<ListView
android:id="#+id/lvDrawer"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:paddingTop="24dp"
android:divider="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:background="#android:color/background_light" />
<com.starpedia.marvin.swc_pedia.SlidingTabLayout
android:id="#+id/sliding_tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"/>
</com.starpedia.marvin.swc_pedia.FragmentNavigationDrawer>
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/viewpager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0px"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#android:color/white"/>
</LinearLayout>
and a picture of the current screen displayed.
Thanks for your help in advance.

Add navigation drawer to content view containing ListView and Button

I have a view layout containing a ListView and a Button:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:background="#5434"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ListView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_weight="1.0"
android:id="#+id/itemlistView" tools:ignore="ObsoleteLayoutParam"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
tools:ignore="ObsoleteLayoutParam">
<Button
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/button"
android:text="#string/new_item"
android:id="#+id/listview_addDebtButton"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_weight="1.0"
tools:ignore="ObsoleteLayoutParam"/>
</LinearLayout>
but now i want to add a Navigation Drawer. Using the sample code from google developers. But am not sure how to do this since the sample code contains an empty content view:
<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" />
<!-- 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.
The drawer is given a fixed width in dp and extends the full height of
the container. A solid background is used for contrast
with the content view. -->
<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"/>
I however proceeded to try with this as my new layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- 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:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ListView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:id="#+id/itemlistView" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/button"
android:text="#string/new_item"
android:id="#+id/listview_addDebtButton"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_weight="1.0"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</FrameLayout>
<!-- 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.
The drawer is given a fixed width in dp and extends the full height of
the container. A solid background is used for contrast
with the content view. -->
<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"/>
This fails woefully when I try to run the app and i get a android.view.InflateException with the error message:
error inflating class DrawerLayout. Am not sure how to proceed from here. "There is a similar question that asks "How do I add navigation drawer to my existing code?" but this problem is way too complicated than mine and I can't apply the solutions to my problem. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Try like this:
According to docs: Drawer Layout tooks two direct children
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.
From that reference I used one for FrameLayout and another one for ListView.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/frame_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/itemlistView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_weight="1.0"
tools:ignore="ObsoleteLayoutParam" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/listview_addDebtButton"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_weight="1.0"
android:background="#drawable/button"
android:text="#string/new_item"
tools:ignore="ObsoleteLayoutParam" />
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/left_drawer"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:background="#111"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="#android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="0dp" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

NavigationDrawer blocks other button on the activity

I'm working on the UI of my app and I'm facing a problem when I implement the Navigation Drawer. As you can see here, I have some buttons to manage my Media Player, these are not responding to my clicks when I implement the Navigation Drawer (working fine without Navigation Drawer).
I think the problem is coming from my XML file because there are no changing when I delete the implementation in Java.
Here are my XML sheets :
main_activity.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MyActivity">
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragments"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
class="com.example.ilan.myapplication.fragments.FragmentHome" >
</fragment>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:text="Buffering"
android:id="#+id/tV_Buffering"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true" />
<include
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
layout="#layout/player_controls"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>
<include
layout="#layout/navigation_drawer_main_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</RelativeLayout>
Note that I put the Navigation Drawer in the end to have it to cover the all activity.
navigation_drawer_main_layout.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<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="#FFFFFF"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
player_controls.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/blue">
<Button
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:id="#+id/button_play_pause"
android:layout_toStartOf="#+id/tV_Buffering"
android:background="#drawable/bouton_play"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
/>
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Stop"
android:id="#+id/button_stop"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/button_play_pause"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Well, if anyone has any idea from where this come from it would be awesome, thanks !

To use a DrawerLayout, position your primary content view as the first child with width and height of match_parent and no layout_gravity. Add drawers as child views after the main content view and set the layout_gravity appropriately. Drawers commonly use match_parent for height with a fixed width. Check out the documentation of google regarding to DrawerLayout : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/DrawerLayout.html.
Your primary content should put inside DrawerLayout instead of including the DrawerLayout inside your RelativeLayout.
For your case, you could try to implement it this way instead:
main_activity.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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">
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MyActivity">
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragments"
class="com.example.ilan.myapplication.fragments.FragmentHome"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
</fragment>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tV_Buffering"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="Buffering"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"/>
<include
layout="#layout/player_controls"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/left_drawer"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="#android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

how can i show my left navigation menu above all of the activity component?

what i have is a left navigation side bar which i made using the navigation drawer .. it works just fine but also in the same layout for the activity i have a three buttons .. and each time the menu appears it appears under the three buttons which is so weird .. i want this menu to appear above everything else in the activity .. here is my xml code :
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#string/layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background"
>
<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">
<!-- Framelayout to display Fragments -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/frame_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<!-- Listview to display slider menu -->
<ListView
android:id="#+id/list_slidermenu"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="#ffffff"
android:dividerHeight="1dp"
android:listSelector="#drawable/list_selector"
android:background="#703534"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="170sp"
android:layout_height="60sp"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/button1"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:background="#drawable/catalogue" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="170sp"
android:layout_height="60sp"
android:layout_above="#+id/button2"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="52dp"
android:background="#drawable/our_products" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button3"
android:layout_width="170sp"
android:layout_height="60sp"
android:layout_below="#+id/button2"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="52dp"
android:background="#drawable/contact_us" />
</RelativeLayout>
can anyone help me??

The order of how you define things in the xml decide how they appear on the screen, also determines which view appears above or below which other view. For a Nav Drawer, The layout should be something like this :
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:font="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.teewe.client"
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<!-- This LinearLayout is the layout for your activity. Replace with FrameLayout -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/white"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="#dimen/padding_from_screen_edges" >
</LinearLayout>
<!--The last view that you include, shows up in your drawer. In this case, everything inside this RelativeLayout shows up in the drawer. -->
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/drawerRelativeLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:background="#fff" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/left_drawer"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#id/nowPlayingLayout"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="#color/light_gray"
android:dividerHeight="1dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>