I need to implement something similar to Android's notification bar. I would like to make a view that the user can drag and expand. The part that is not visible at the bigining has more views. (The image below explain what I want to achieve).
you can use sliding drawer i know its deprecated but still works well even in android 4.4 have a look at this tutorial for sliding drawer
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In my application I need to show and hide a view(custom menu) only in screen's bottom if a user swipe from bottom to up and similarly it should hide the view if user swipes the view down.The swiping thing is similar to navigation drawer introduced in android recently but I am not getting how do I detect the bottom-up swipe in my application to show the view.I could have used SlidingDrawer but that has been deprecated since API 17.Please help me .
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Look here . I don't think use SlidingDrawer
I have a project where the designs require a sliding drawer that comes from the bottom and has essentially three states.
fully collapsed (just the handle at the bottom
half mast (drawer opens from bottom but only halfway up the screen
full mast (drawer opens from bottom and takes up the whole screen minus a top margin of lets say 80dp
I am developing for android 4.0 and higher and obviously sliding drawer is deprecated. But the Navigation drawer only supports left and right (which i already have in use)
So i am wondering if anyone knows a tutorial or even a custom component someone has written that meets the above functionality requirements
In my experience, you probably have to create something yourself, but since you're developing for api lvl 14, check out ObjectAnimator. It allows you to move Views around and still use them (by that I mean that it's the original view that has been moved and not a copy of it)
This will probably be the easiest way.
FYI, using the Navigation Drawer, you can't open the drawer halfway, or you should programmatically invoke touch events...
I think this is what you are looking for.
I have found this library best so far for sliding up menus in Android.
https://github.com/umano/AndroidSlidingUpPanel
You can specify what screen area slide up menu or view will use.
Accept & vote up my answer if it is what you are looking for.
The SlidingMenu library is an excellent third party library and I've already used it for a long time. Now I know Android provides a new navigation pattern using Navigation Drawer. It looks like the sliding menu. So is there anyone who already uses these two both? What is the difference and what are the pros and cons? Thanks a lot.
SlidingMenu library is a third party api which uses a RelativeLayout inside. The main advantage is customization according to your requirement. Buy your layouts have to be based on a viewgroup, unfortunatly this negates the <merge> optimisations.
Navigation Drawer is available in the Support Library of android it uses DrawerLayout inside. The main advantage is improved performance.
They also have different visual effects. SlidingMenu looks like horizontal scroll view. Sliding it in will push the main content out.
Pros :
It comes with cool entrance / exit animations for the menu content.
Depending on what Activity you use it on, it can be placed below the Action Bar or next to it (pushing the Action Bar too)
You can explicitly set the touch mode via a setter: margin or full screen. In full screen mode touching anywhere on the screen will open the menu. In margin, only when you slide from the edge of screen will the menu open.
Cons :
You can only control the shadow of the side menu
Navigation Drawer / Drawer Layout looks like an additional top level view in a frame layout. Sliding it in will mask the main content.
Pros :
If you use v4 support lib then it's already there.
You can control both the side menu shadow and obscure the main
content via setScrimColor e.g when the drawer is opened, a fade-in
alpha layer will appear above the main content. This is good to visually separate the content and the menu especially when both have a same color.
Cons:
It can only be placed below ActionBar
There is no setter for touch mode and by default you can only do margin touch mode. Doing a full screen touch mode (like Youtube) involves a lot of work
I think the best advantage is that It is official Google code, I mean it just works and works excellent.
The main disadvantage is that it is very basic to use, I mean... you cannot put two navigation drawer in the same activity or fragment, you can only use one in left and that's it.
You already said it yourself. Sliding menu is third party. Navigation drawer is official. Both have the same purpose, but third party libraries might implementing it slightly differently, depending on which one you use.
I'm trying to emulate a "toolbar" type floating menu used by the android google plus app. The menu appears when you scroll up the page and hides nicely when you scroll down.
I'm guessing this is a linear layout with some sort of animation. Is that correct? Any ideas on how to reproduce?
You should have a look at Roman Nurik's scroll tricks example here. It shows how to have a quick return view like the one you mention.
One way to achieve this effect is to call animate().translationY(value) on the object you want to slide down/up.
I am developing an app on Android and would like to use the similar menu bar like Google Plus or Facebook, when you click the button, the menu bar will slide in and will not occupy the whole screen. Any ideas on that?
Thanks.
A pretty popular library for accomplishing the 'sliding menu' effect (or 'drawer' as the design guidelines on the Android developer website prefer to call it) is Jeremy Feinstein's SlidingMenu. It's also compatible with ActionBarSherlock, in case your project is using that too. Unfortunately, at this stage there is no component built into the SDK that allows you to do easily accomplish the same thing.
There are also a couple of alternative implementations for a sliding menu (do a search either here on SO or Google), but I haven't checked those out for a little while. If I recall correctly, there are especially some variations in terms of whether the ActionBar is supposed to slide along with the content or stay fixed at the top of the screen.
You can use FrameLayout in parent view and use translate animation in menu layout to show the slide in and slide out effect.