I'm not an Android ninja developer and I'd like to implement an app which has a Drawer Navigation and includes a tutorial.
Basically if you are in "My App" you should see a 5-6 steps tutorial.
The question is:
How can I implement that app?
I'd like to know how to organize it and which components I should use.
I'd really appreciate a step-by-step guide.
Thanks a lot.
This is a weird mockup of what I'm trying to implement :)
You can make an activity on top of drawer and then you can simply put view pager in Activity for tutorial. When user will finish tutorial you can move user to Drawer Navigation.
So you can use following method.
Check if user is visiting application for first time then show tutorial activity then move to Navigation Drawer. If user is visiting application for second time or more then you can directly move user to Navigation Drawer and start app.
If your tutorial is for the overall app, Jayesh's answer is right: you should put it in a separate Activity.
If the tutorial only demonstrates part of your app, i.e. only the drawer your are in, I suggest you use:
One MainActivity with a DrawerLayout. The latest SDK tools have a real cool template for NavigationDrawer, that will save you a lot of time!
In your TutorialFragment, write a layout with a ViewPager and the fixed bar at the bottom.
Add pages for your tutorial to this ViewPager.
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I have an activity with a left pane and I need to change input fields when a different item is selected from the left pane.
I tried by adding a new activity but when the new activity show up the left pane disappears and the only way to get it back is by hitting the back button and I don´t want that; the left pane must hide but must remain to select a new activity and let the user jump from one activity to any other that he choose.
How I cant get that?
I read also about something called fragments but since I'm new on this it looks a bit more complex.
I would review the documentation on Navigation, particularly on using a NavigationDrawer.
Hope that helps!
Refer to below Google Navigation Drawer Sample where you could find the correct way of implementing it.
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-NavigationDrawer
In addition I would recommend exploring bottom navigation, which is like the new navigation trends user enjoys.
Here is a code lab for it:
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/android-navigation/#0
To choose which component to use for your app follow this material design guideline: https://material.io/design/navigation/understanding-navigation.html#lateral-navigation
Tip: To Speed up your development you can directly add Navigation Drawer Activity that will help you save a lot of time by adding the base code. Just add new Navigation Drawer activity by right clicking the package.
Hmm. Yes using fragments is the best solution. But you can also play around with hiding and showing views.
I am working on my first actual app in Android Studio (have only done some hello world stuff). I want to add a navigation drawer to my swipe view activity (which is my main activity), but I do not know how. Could someone help me with my little problem?
This is very basic question so writing same thing again and again is some kind of time consuming thing so i will suggest you to search for some things like "Navigation Drawer in Activity" or you can go for this link.
I'm trying to implement a navigation like in Play Store app or in the VLC app.
In the Play Store app, they use a navigation drawer where you can choose 'apps'. Then it is possible to swipe through 'views' (categories, home, top paid, ...) ( here is a picture to show what I'm talking about)
In the VLC app, they use a navigation drawer (?) in combination with a swipe view (?) for the audio section.
I was searching for a tutorial, but I couldn't find any suitable yet. Most of these tutorials use Fragment's - as far as I know, these aren't able to contain swipe views?
Could someone please give me a hint (in addition it would be nice to see some code) on how to get on with this? Thanks :)
Look into latest design support library, specifically for TabLayout, where you can specify fixed tabs (up to three usually), or swiping ones (many more).
http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/android-design-support-library.html
There's also an awesome demo of it in an open source app called Cheesesquare.
https://github.com/chrisbanes/cheesesquare
A FrameLayout hosting a ViewPager could be used to achieve this. Just use a LinearLayout at the top of the layout to display your navigation buttons.
The ViewPager will allow the user to swipe through each fragment it contains, you can also set each button's onClick to have the ViewPager automatically swipe to the relevant fragment.
If you want to use TabLayout, look into Google I/O app on github. More specifically, take a look at SlidingTabLayout and SlidingTabStrip under iosched/android/src/main/java/com/google/samples/apps/iosched/ui/widget. Also take at look at this SO thread
i am creating a diary application that has a page for showing: diary entries, new diary entries and events that the user has coming up, my application will use a database to store entries and display.
I was wondering how best to go about navigation in my app, as i wanted to use a navigation drawer. Can navigation drawer's be used to navigate between activities and if not how would i implement fragments to be handle the functionality i want?
A NavigationDrawer is typically used to navigate between a few Fragments. A main Activity is used to handle user interaction with the NavigationDrawer and will typically attach the corresponding Fragment to a container within the Activity.
With that being said, your best bet would be following the full tutorial posted on the Android developers webpage. The tutorial contains each step necessary to successfully implement a NavigationDrawer in your application. In addition, you may download the completed and functional project from that tutorial and import it into your IDE.
Good luck and happy coding!
In my application, I want to have behavior like facebook app wherein on click of icon I'd like to shift the whole screen towards right and display some menus on the left as shown below:
Before Clicking Menu Button
After Clicking Menu Button
One way is to have a layout with those menu in black color and set its visibility to gone
But in that case, the shifting animation won't be there like it is there in facebook. So is there any way we can do this?
This UI Pattern is currently being referred to as Side Navigation and discussed in some detail here:
http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/06/emerging-ui-pattern-side-navigation.html
The article also links to several projects that have implemented this navigation:
https://github.com/korovyansk/android-fb-like-slideout-navigation
https://github.com/darvds/RibbonMenu
https://bitbucket.org/jfeinstein10/slidingmenu/overview
https://github.com/Gregadeaux/android-fly-in-app-navigation
It is worth reading the article for its discussion about the issues with this kind of navigation also, though.
I have not implemented it but give you an exact idea that you have to use fragment for this.
Go through this link
This is the best that I've found https://github.com/DWorkS/ActionBarToggle because it's implementation is similar to DrawerLayout from google using ActionBarToggle. Although, it has a problem with open method but I wrote to its owner and he said that he will solve.