I have the following problem. I noticed that on Android 4.4.2 (and possibly all 4.4.x) the NavigationDrawer does not work exactly as in lower version. It works fine, when opened via click in the ActionBar icon. But when I tried to open it by swiping from the side around the middle of the screen, only small grey area comes in instead of my NavigationDrawer. It looks like this.
I also noticed, that I am not the only one who has this kind of problems, as both Evernote and Duolingo suffers from the same problem. Is there anyway to make the drawer open correctly by swiping from the side ?
I added the Drawer exactly the way described here.
Edit : When I drag from the top left corner, everything is fine, but when I drag from the left edge somewhere in middle of the screen, something weird shows instead of a drawer. See the first link for the screenshot.
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I need to move the android Navigation Bar from the bottom of the display to the right side of the display.
The android app I'm working on requires the user to touch the bottom of the screen often, so I'd like to move the navigation bar to the right side of the screen. I believe this is possible, as I've seen it done in several games. The attached image shows what I'd like to achieve; when the user swipes from the bottom or top, the android bars appear at the top and RIGHT side, as opposed to the top and BOTTOM.
I've read through a lot of existing similar posts, and have tried the suggested answers, however they seem to instruct how to move a navigation DRAWER (ie a new "bar" implemented by the app) to the right side, as opposed to the BAR itself; I believe these are two different things.
Further, the information on android developer (https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive) suggests that the bar cannot be moved, it can only be temporarily hidden. If that's the case though, how are the app's such as the one in the image doing it? Any suggestions?
I am looking to implement a menu like used on the Android Uber app.
It seems to be like an action bar on top with 3 small settings stripes on left side. (probably not a real action bar)
When clicking in that area a black menu slides out from the left and occupies 70% of the screen.
The right side of the screen still showing the map is darkened to keep focus on the menu.
I like that style, it looks good and everyone immediately knows how to use it.
I would like to have the same but don't know where to start or if there is maybe something available that would do something similar.
The actionbar itself only offers the menu on top right which is better for pure settings.
I also experimented with a split action bar having the menu items on bottom but that also seems superior to the clean interface Uber provides.
You want the Android Navigation Drawer. It's an Android sanctioned navigation pattern and more details about it can be found here. For some more technical documentation and an example of how to use it, you can find a sample over here. It works great with the Action Bar so shouldn't need anything too custom outside of what the Android v4 compat library gives you.
There is a task to display the navigation bar on the left side for android 4.4.2. Nothing of the sort found. Is it possible to do this?
Or, for example, to hide the navigation bar, and on the left side add own custom menu on the same level of layouts hierarchy order content is shifted to the size of the menu?
This solution should work everywhere, not just in one application.
Thanks for the help.
As far as I know you see that navigation bar there because you are using emulator genymotion. On real devices you should not be able to see it. Besides, those back button are physical buttons on some devices like samsung s2.
If you want a menu on the left you should implement navigation drawer. Good luck
I'm experimenting for the first time with Android's Navigation Drawer. I think it is a very elegant way to provide an application menu. However, showing my prototype to some friends, it seems that it is not quit intuitive to search for a menu i) on the top left corner respectively ii) on the left side of the screen.
To provide a "user hint" for case i), I added a custom image by creating an ActionBarDrawerToggle. This results in following design of the title bar (the little arrow is the cutom image, while the red star is the application icon):
Now while developping, I thought this is quite obvious, but apparantly I'm wrong :). So as a second idea, to support a user to find option ii) described below, I tried to figure out how to add a further image at a specific place, which I want to explain with following image:
Don't look at the design itself in the first place, but following: the image must be placed outside of the "view bounds" (when the navigation menu is hidden), and also exceed the navigation panel itself on the right side (always). Is this in any way possible without customize the entire navigation panel? I really wonder why I can't find much about this idea, since I think it is a very nice option to provide for the user (as long as the arrow don't disturbs the application usage)
Although I haven't actually tested it with Android's Navigation Drawer,
did you try putting an imageview in your activity's layout? The image would be placed in the middle vertically and on parent left horizontally. I believe this would work (i.e. the image will get pushed when you open the drawer. As an improvement you could also change the image itself in the drawer's callbacks, so that you have an arrow pointing right when the drawer is closed and an arrow pointing left when the drawer is open.
Hope it helps.
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.