I really don't know what is the difference between these two approaches of creating navigation menu. So I read that both can be used as a container for two fragments (main fragment, detail fragment). So can you help me to understand which approach is better and why? I can't find out relevant information.
thank you.
The session was "Android Design for UI Developers" by Roman Nurik and Nick Butcher:
https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/326204977
Pretty much what CommonsWare said, essentially, Navigation Drawer is for chrome and top level navigation, so it overlays app content. SlidingPaneLayout is for content navigation, thus it doesn't overlay content.
EDIT:
The video is still available here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3-lzlzOJI
So can you help me to understand which approach is better and why? I can't find out relevant information.
This was covered in a Google I|O 2013 presentation, though I forget which one.
SlidingPaneLayout is for content, such as the master-detail pattern. You might use it in place of two layouts for master-detail structures for smaller and larger screens.
DrawerLayout is for navigation. You might use it in place of the dashboard pattern, or using action bar items for navigation, if you have a fair bit of navigation in your app.
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I have made my navigation drawer and it is working all fine , it is according to new design rules. but now I have a problem and after a couple of search I have found no note over it so far. So I end up with asking question here.
What I have done so far is some thing like
the picture shows you the demo , How ever I have made some thing like this its just the demo to give you people hint about what is header in the navigation drawer and where my menu items list lies
You can clearly see that there is a header in the navigation drawer and the menu item list beneath it .
Problem 1
now do to some reasons I have deleted the header , but my menu Items goes upwards to the top starting point. I know I can give margin up , but this is not the good way
Is there any good way I can just centralized them vertically ? I am wondering How to do it , Please Help me .
and Problem 2 is , I want to minimize the distance and margin between the menu items and menu icons in navigation drawer How to do this. I have not seen any of the discussion over it.
Please help me in solving both problems.
On screenshot you attached to your question, the navigation drawer doesn't look fine and according to the new desing rules :-/
Just have a look at the official guide: https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawer.html
Luckly for you nowdays we are provided by Google with Android Design Support Library that helps us with creating Navigation View (that replaces Navigation Drawer)
Here are links for you:
official documentation, always a good read: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/NavigationView.html
nicely written blog post about Navigation View: http://antonioleiva.com/navigation-view/
and last but not least, sample app using new Android Design Library: https://github.com/antoniolg/MaterializeYourApp
I know it's not the answer you were looking for, like "just change true to false in the line number 10" but stay assured that using official Navigation View is a way to go in modern Android world.
You can use the new NavigationView from the Android Design Support Library in making your navigation drawer. NavigationView make s creating material design-compliant navigation drawer.
You can read about it at http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/05/android-design-support-library.html
Read these three articles
Take a look at this code
Use the design support library
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...
doc
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'm about to use one of them and yet i'm very confused.
I don't know the difference. to me, both look the same.
I've passed through this Difference between SlidingPaneLayout and NavigationDrawer
may anyone tell the difference between them??
This is what the official Navigation Drawer (DrawerLayout) looks like:
And this is what the SlidingPaneLayout looks like:
Both serve different purposes. The DrawerLayout serves as a menu, to put it simple. The SlidingPaneLayout on the other hand is a what you would use, if the content of both your screens would interact with each other. Or to as the documentation puts it:
The SlidingPaneLayout should be thought of only as a way to allow a
two-pane layout normally used on larger screens to adapt to smaller
screens in a natural way
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'm trying to replicate the following sliding navigation menu functionality (the one with "TOP STORIES", "World", "U.S" etc.) with no luck so far.
I'm feeling there is an obvious way to achieve this, as I'm constantly seeing this in many apps. Is it based on a library shipped with Android? Any starting point or materials used to achieve this are welcomed.
Keep in mind, I don't care about the design/xmls, just the implementation logic.
It is nothing but a HorizontalScrollView that contains child views.