Android: Navigation-Drawer on all activities

android, android-activity, java, navigation-drawer

Solution

The easy way is that you should create fragments. If you are ready to for little hard thing then this is for you. It will let you have same navigation drawer in all activities.

Create `drawer_n_activity.xml`

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/drawer_frame"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<YourDrawer
    android:id="@+id/drawer_drawer"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

</YourDrawer>

</RelativeLayout>

Your `DrawerActivity.class`

public class DrawerActivity extends Activity {

    public RelativeLayout fullLayout;
    public FrameLayout frameLayout;

    @Override
    public void setContentView(int layoutResID) {

        fullLayout = (RelativeLayout) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.drawer_n_activity, null);
        frameLayout = (FrameLayout) fullLayout.findViewById(R.id.drawer_frame);

        getLayoutInflater().inflate(layoutResID, frameLayout, true);

        super.setContentView(fullLayout);

        //Your drawer content...

    }
}

Now, to include same Navigation Drawer in all your activities and mind one more thing, all your activities must extend `DrawerActivity`

public class MainActivity extends DrawerActivity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); //layout for 1st activity
   }
}

public class SecondActivity extends DrawerActivity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.second_activity); //layout for 2nd activity
   }
}

Problem

I want to add navigation drawer on all actvities of my Android project. This is the code of the MainActivity: ``` public class MainActivity extends Activity { private String[] drawerListViewItems; private DrawerLayout drawerLayout; private ListView drawerListView; private ActionBarDrawerToggle actionBarDrawerToggle; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); // get list items from strings.xml drawerListViewItems = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.items); // get ListView defined in activity_main.xml drawerListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.left_drawer); // Set the adapter for the list view drawerListView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.drawer_listview_item, drawerListViewItems)); // App Icon drawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout); //drawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.drawable.ic_drawer_2); actionBarDrawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle( this, /* host Activity */ drawerLayout, /* DrawerLayout object */ R.drawable.ic_drawer, /* nav drawer icon to replace 'Up' caret */ R.string.drawer_open, /* "open drawer" description */ R.string.drawer_close /* "close drawer" description */ ); // Set actionBarDrawerToggle as the DrawerListener drawerLayout.setDrawerListener(actionBarDrawerToggle); getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); // just styling option add shadow the right edge of the drawer drawerLayout.setDrawerShadow(R.drawable.ic_drawer, GravityCompat.START); drawerListView.setOnItemClickListener(new DrawerItemClickListener()); } @Override protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onPostCreate(savedInstanceState); // Sync the toggle state after onRestoreInstanceState has occurred. actionBarDrawerToggle.syncState(); } @Override public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) { super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig); actionBarDrawerToggle.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig); } @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { // call ActionBarDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(), if it returns true // then it has handled the app icon touch event if (actionBarDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item)) { return true; } return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); } private class DrawerItemClickListener implements ListView.OnItemClickListener { @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) { displayView(position); drawerLayout.closeDrawer(drawerListView); } private void displayView(int position) { switch (position) { case 0: secondactivity(); break; case 1: Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "2", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); break; case 2: Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "3", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); default: break; } } } public void secondactivity (){ Intent cambioActivity; cambioActivity = new Intent (this, SecondActivity.class); startActivity(cambioActivity); } } ``` In this code I create the navigation drawer, I want the navigation drawer on all activities, so my Second Activity's code is this: ``` public class SecondActivity extends MainActivity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_secondactivity); } ``` The navigation drawer is on the first activity but there isn't on other activities, why? Can someone help me?

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