Hello guys, here is another tutorial for one of the most common things in any android application, navigation drawer. So in this Android Navigation Drawer Example you will learn how you can use the Android Navigation Drawer from the predefined template.
You may already know what is Android Navigation Drawer but if you are confused in implementing it with multiple fragments then don’t worry, this android navigation drawer example will clear all your doubts. So lets begin our Android Navigation Drawer Example.
- You can also watch this complete video tutorial if you are having problem understanding the written tutorial.
Creating a new project
- So first we will create a new project. I am using Android Studio. (No reason of using eclipse nowdays 😛 )
- Create a new project. I created NavigationDrawerExample.
- Now when you are asked to select an activity from the template, select the navigation drawer activity.
- If you want to add Navigation Drawer Activity to your existing project you can simply add it by going to your package -> right click -> new -> activity -> navigation drawer activity
- Once your project is loaded your navigation drawer activity is ready. You can now run your application. 😛
- Pretty easy right? Yeah its quite easy. Now we will learn to customise the menus and to add the screens for the menus using fragment.
- Now you can change the menus given in the drawer to whatever you want. To change the menu open the activity_main_drawer.xml inside menu folder. Here is my activity_main_drawer.xml file I deleted the menus and now we have only 3 menus (You can add as many as you want).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <group android:checkableBehavior="single"> <item android:id="@+id/nav_menu1" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" android:title="Menu 1" /> <item android:id="@+id/nav_menu2" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" android:title="Menu 2" /> <item android:id="@+id/nav_menu3" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" android:title="Menu 3" /> </group> </menu> |
- I changed the text to Menu 1, Menu 2 and Menu3 and for icons I used the default android icon. You can use custom icons just paste the icon image inside drawer folder and you can use them.
- If you try to run app now it will give error, as we have changed the menu items and ids. So first go inside MainActivity.java (or the java file for your navigation drawer activity). And modify the overriden method onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) as follows.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | @SuppressWarnings("StatementWithEmptyBody") @Override public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) { // Handle navigation view item clicks here. int id = item.getItemId(); if (id == R.id.nav_menu1) { // Handle the camera action } else if (id == R.id.nav_menu2) { } else if (id == R.id.nav_menu3) { } DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START); return true; } |
- Here we removed the previous if else conditions and added our own according to the customised menu ids.
- You can also customise the navigation drawer header. For this you need to go to the nav_header_main.xml file. I also changed this file as below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="@dimen/nav_header_height" android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark" android:gravity="bottom" android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"> <TextView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:paddingTop="@dimen/nav_header_vertical_spacing" android:text="Navigation Drawer Example" android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceLarge" /> </LinearLayout> |
- Now you can run your application.
- You can see a circular red button in your activity. You can remove it if you do not need it. To remove this button go to app_bar_main.xml inside the layout folder and remove the floating button from there.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:fitsSystemWindows="true" tools:context="net.simplifiedcoding.navigationdrawerexample.MainActivity"> <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"> <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize" android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" /> </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout> <include layout="@layout/content_main" /> </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout> |
- To remove the default Hello World text view go to the content_main.xml file.
- As we have removed the button we also need to modify the code inside onCreate() method of MainActivity.java so modify it as follow or you will get error.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); toolbar.setTitle("Menu 1"); setSupportActionBar(toolbar); DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); ActionBarDrawerToggle toggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle( this, drawer, toolbar, R.string.navigation_drawer_open, R.string.navigation_drawer_close); drawer.setDrawerListener(toggle); toggle.syncState(); NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view); navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this); } |
- Now we will create fragments for our navigation menus.
Now whenever we click on a navigation item from the drawer a respective screen should open, for this we will use fragments. As we have three navigation menus we will create three layouts inside our layout folder.
- Right click on layouts folder and create a new layout resource file. I named it fragment_menu_1.xml, fragment_menu_2.xml and fragment_menu_3.xml. Write the following xml code inside all these files.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"> <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" android:text="Menu 1" android:id="@+id/textView" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" /> </RelativeLayout> |
- All the three files contains the same code only for the text I changed it to Menu 1, Menu 2 and Menu3 for the respective files.
- You can design the screens according to your application requirement but for now I am justing putting a normal TextView as it is an example demonstrating the concept only.
- So we have the layouts now we will put these screens inside your activity using fragments. For this we need a FrameLayout so go inside content_main.xml file and add a FrameLayout.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" tools:context="net.simplifiedcoding.navigationdrawerexample.MainActivity" tools:showIn="@layout/app_bar_main"> <FrameLayout android:id="@+id/content_frame" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" /> </RelativeLayout> |
- Now we will create the Fragments.
- So create 3 java classes inside your package named Menu1, Menu2 and Menu3 and write the following code.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 | package net.simplifiedcoding.navigationdrawerexample; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.annotation.Nullable; import android.support.v4.app.Fragment; import android.view.LayoutInflater; import android.view.View; import android.view.ViewGroup; /** * Created by Belal on 18/09/16. */ public class Menu1 extends Fragment { @Nullable @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) { //returning our layout file //change R.layout.yourlayoutfilename for each of your fragments return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_menu_1, container, false); } @Override public void onViewCreated(View view, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState); //you can set the title for your toolbar here for different fragments different titles getActivity().setTitle("Menu 1"); } } |
- For the other two classes code will be the same, you only need to change R.layout.fragment_menu_1 with the respective layout file for your fragment.
- Now come inside MainActivity.java and empty the method onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) as follows.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | @SuppressWarnings("StatementWithEmptyBody") @Override public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) { //make this method blank return true; } |
- Now here we will create one more method named displaySelectedScreen(int itemId).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | private void displaySelectedScreen(int itemId) { //creating fragment object Fragment fragment = null; //initializing the fragment object which is selected switch (itemId) { case R.id.nav_menu1: fragment = new Menu1(); break; case R.id.nav_menu2: fragment = new Menu2(); break; case R.id.nav_menu3: fragment = new Menu3(); break; } //replacing the fragment if (fragment != null) { FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction(); ft.replace(R.id.content_frame, fragment); ft.commit(); } DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START); } |
- We will call this method whenever a navigation menu item is selected. So inside onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) we need to add the following line.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | @SuppressWarnings("StatementWithEmptyBody") @Override public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) { //calling the method displayselectedscreen and passing the id of selected menu displaySelectedScreen(item.getItemId()); //make this method blank return true; } |
- Now when the activity is first loaded we will display Menu1. For this just add the following line inside onCreate() method of MainActivity.java.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); setSupportActionBar(toolbar); DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); ActionBarDrawerToggle toggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle( this, drawer, toolbar, R.string.navigation_drawer_open, R.string.navigation_drawer_close); drawer.setDrawerListener(toggle); toggle.syncState(); NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view); navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this); //add this line to display menu1 when the activity is loaded displaySelectedScreen(R.id.nav_menu1); } |
- So the final code for MainActivity.java is.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 | package net.simplifiedcoding.navigationdrawerexample; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton; import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar; import android.support.v4.app.Fragment; import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction; import android.view.View; import android.support.design.widget.NavigationView; import android.support.v4.view.GravityCompat; import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem; public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements NavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); setSupportActionBar(toolbar); DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); ActionBarDrawerToggle toggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle( this, drawer, toolbar, R.string.navigation_drawer_open, R.string.navigation_drawer_close); drawer.setDrawerListener(toggle); toggle.syncState(); NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view); navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this); //add this line to display menu1 when the activity is loaded displaySelectedScreen(R.id.nav_menu1); } @Override public void onBackPressed() { DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); if (drawer.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) { drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START); } else { super.onBackPressed(); } } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present. getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu); return true; } @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml. int id = item.getItemId(); //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement if (id == R.id.action_settings) { return true; } return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); } private void displaySelectedScreen(int itemId) { //creating fragment object Fragment fragment = null; //initializing the fragment object which is selected switch (itemId) { case R.id.nav_menu1: fragment = new Menu1(); break; case R.id.nav_menu2: fragment = new Menu2(); break; case R.id.nav_menu3: fragment = new Menu3(); break; } //replacing the fragment if (fragment != null) { FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction(); ft.replace(R.id.content_frame, fragment); ft.commit(); } DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START); } @SuppressWarnings("StatementWithEmptyBody") @Override public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) { //calling the method displayselectedscreen and passing the id of selected menu displaySelectedScreen(item.getItemId()); //make this method blank return true; } } |
- Thats it now just run your application.
- Bingo! Its working absolutely fine. If you are having troubles you can get the source code from the below github repository.
Android Navigation Drawer Example Source Code
So thats it for this Android Navigation Drawer Example friends. Feel free to leave your queries by comments. And please do share this post in your social networks if you found it useful. Thank You 🙂
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Hi i’m having rendering problems on my activity_main_drawer.xml
Exception raised during rendering: android.graphics.drawable.VectorDrawable_Delegate.nCreateTreeFromCopy(JJ)J (Details)
and nothing shows. Pls how can i fix this problem
Great tutorial! Appreciated.
Can i add different activity in the different menu ?? If can, how to do it??
how to add image button in menu1 fragment
Thanks bro…
Hi Belal
How to create an Android application with navigation drawer and Tablayout in same activity in android studio?
Sir, can you please help me…….
I need wallet system android coding in my android App.
Sir please reply as soon.
There is an issue of selected item color if adds child items under parent menu like menu -> menu1 -> child1, child2. Doesn’t highlight selected child.
Please see posted question on SO
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41458243/not-highlighting-selected-child-item-from-navigationview
when we press button in the navigation drawer another navigation drawer should appear can you please guide me how to do it?
Many thanks, there is always that one tutorial out there that makes the most sense.
Thanks dude.
From all the tutorials out there, your tuto is the most straight to the point and easy to understand !
I like the way you arrange the steps to follows with the screenshots.
Thanks dude!
Thanks for this. Easily understand the steps and it’s working
if (fragment != null) {
FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ft.replace(R.id.content_main, fragment);
ft.commit();
I am getting an error. wrong second argument type.Required android.support.v4,fragment
Pancha
Check your imports you may be using only Fragments but you have to use import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
So check the import line for fragment and replace that with import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
Cant see the Text View for the first Fragment
directly displays the text view for the 2nd Fragment
very thank you
Thanks for this. It’s working 🙂
Question, is it possible to make the ActionBar (or ToolBar) as Search View.
I add Search in menu part ( onCreateOptionsMenu) but kept on getting null value in SearchView part
code:
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.options_menu, menu);
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.app_bar_search);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
EXCELLENT!!!!
This is the best Android Navigation Drawer tutorial I have found.
Thanks !!!
I want to add Dropdown list view with email id like gmail.
Super tut. Great Job.
I have written code correctly but required op is not displaying…
Many thanks for this tutorial! The best I found until now.
Thanks. It’s working as a separate app. But, when integrated into another project, it doesn’t work. No errors are shown, just the app crashes in the emulator. What can be the error here?
Thank you very much for this tutorial, very helpful 🙂
Great work, but I have a problem I would like to add a webview in one of the xml fragments. I added the internet permissions to the manifest, added the code to the main.java in the xml fragment inserted the webview I tried everything but I did not succeed. Can you help me? Thank you.
thanks …Very nice tutorial but make sure android studio is updated or a newer version almost 2.3.2…
i have got so many problem while implementing in an old version..
How to remove all fragments from Backstack onBackPress?
while creating new java class. superclass & interface is required. what to fill in theses columns. jus take the example of menu1 java class.
Hi
After having gone through many downloads and blogs, I finally got the best. Thanks for the great, lucid video.
Thanks again
Krishna
This tutorial is very simple. Thanks man.
How to center align the title menu text of navigation drawer
i am trying to display the four fragments but when we clicking on the other fragments…the same fragment is displaying and the other fragments are not displaying……..please help on this..
Each layout want each fragment class
HI, I did the same code, with my fragment layout, but I got this error
java.lang.illegalArgumentException: No view found for id 0x7f0d0086 (…:id/content_frame) for FragmentHome
I’ve got the same issue. How did you solve it?
the best tutorial about navigation drawers i seen so far. very clear and precise
suitable for beginners. can get your app working in seconds
How to add logout from action bar menu. please helpme
Hi I have added the navigation activity to existing project and customized as per my need When it is executed ,I got the message as unfortunately app has stopped…does this method be possible for adding navigation activity to existing project and does this navigation activity can be used as second or next activity?? please give me the solution.
is there no need to implement listener interface as we do in Fragment communication? i.e a listener interface is created in Fragment and that interface is implemented in MainActivity and then a callback method is used …
Hi Shoaib,
that’s correct. based on what i understood. listener interface is there in order to allow events to pass back from Fragment to parent activity and it can be used for communication between one Fragment to another. if your app does not have such a need, you can skip it.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge. It was really useful.
One small comment from my side as it took me sometime to figure out.
If you need to preserve the last fragment when we click on back button we should add the following:
ft.addToBackStack(null);
Like import I have created home page.In home page I hve to write some description about my content with url address of to visit website for more content. Sir then plz me snd description how to implemente it
Thanks a lot
thank you for explaining it in so simple words…..
First time I’ve managed to show content from the drawer, thanks for a great tutorial
Thanks for your tutorial it’s very easygoing
I’m facing a problem
fragment = new ImportFragment();
it showing error Please tell me the reason
Make sure you have imported the correct Fragment, there are two Fragment classes, one is android.app.Fragment another one is android.app.support.v4.Fragment or something like this, you have to choose the second one.
This make my day. Thanks for sharing each and every step.
thank you a looooooot.
very good
Good job, thanks.
Dear, I need help. I have 2 buttons in fragment menu 1,
menu2 and menue3
now i want on click of button menu2 open fragment of menu2
and on click of button menu3 open fragment of menu3
Great Work . Now i know what is fragment and how to use them Thanks Buddy .
Holy shit, thank you! I’ve been trying to work out how to make a working navigation thing (the nav codelab was using Kotlin and intents wasn’t working out, I also tried using fragments but they didn’t work as intended) Thank you so much, I’ve been stuck on this for 2 weeks now!
How can I create a case for logout?