I have an app with an action bar, fragments, etc. and I want to have an extra menu available by pulling a bottom bar upwards. When it's pulled up, the whole screen should move up, revealing the menu.
How would I go about this?
I would probably contain your main views within a layout (call it "A"), place that in a RelativeLayout, then place your menu ("B") behind it (so they are overlayed). When your bottom bar is dragged up, you'll have to calculate finger delta-Y positions (from GestureDetector or similar), and move "A" upward by that amount, leaving "B" where it is.
Be very, very careful with this though, as swiping up from the bottom of the screen on Android 4.1+ devices brings up Google Now. I would suggest instead that you use a Sliding Menu library (which slides in from the left instead).
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Please, help me to understand how to do it right.
I have an app, which represent a screen with bottom bar with 4 tabs (1st layer). From this tabs we can enter other screens (2nd layer) without bottom bar. This organized very simple, Scaffold with bottom bar and navigation host inside it. To open screens above 1st layer without navigation bar I searched and found that I can just hide bottom bar and then open the screen above.
This is good, but on slow devices an ugly animation happen when 1)bottom bar is going down (user see the old screen without bottom bar) and 2) new screen appears.
This is not pleasant, but.. ok.
The second thing that I cannot stand is when in a 1-st layer screen I have a ModalBottomSheetLayout. When it hidden - it hides right behind bottom navigation bar and when I am going to new screen bottom navigation animated down and... here you are - the ModalBottomSheetLayout, and only then the second screen come to the place.
I wonder, may be I understand everything wrong and the new screens shouldn't be organized like this? How to set up navigation and scene like before compose we have a main fragment with bottom nav bar and open fragments on the top?
The example of the code I am talking about can be found for example in app nowinandroid, I think this is very common case.. As I see they also just hide bottom bar when needed..
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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 try to make an app using one activity multiple fragments pattern. I handle navigation with Navigation architecture component using a bottom navigation view. In one of the fragment I have a Recyclerview which displays a list of custom cards. On item click it navigates to another fragment where I need to hide the bottom navigation view.
The problem appears when I navigate back and set the bottom navigation view visible again. The bar seems to appear in two steps giving the feeling of lag. (first time appears just 60% of the bottom navigation view).
The behavior seems to be related with the status bar. When I change the theme to full screen or I set windowTranslucentStatus=true, everything behaves okay. In addition, first time the nav bar seems to be with exactly 24dp smaller, that is the dimension of status bar.
Have you any idea what can I do?
PS. I'm new on stackoverflow and this is my first question. I'm glad to join this wonderful community.
Delay is one way to go, but I wouldn't suggest that.
I am assuming that the your navigation view is rendered before the entire activity is rendered, which is causing it to be rendered again after the UI is rendered. Why don't you try setting the visibility after the UI is rendered, like here
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 am creating an app that will always run in landscape. On tablets the system navigation bar is placed horizontally at the bottom of the screen, and on the phones it is placed vertically at the right end of the screen.
My question is if it is possible to control the placement of the navigation bar via a flag or with some code. I would like it to always appear either at the bottom, or to the right of the screen consistently, regardless of the device.