I have made an app with one activity which uses a navigation drawer to open a number of different fragments. I have the actionbar drawertoggle, but it is not very visible.
If I place a button in the onCreateView in my main fragment(the fragment that appears when my app first starts up), how can I get it to open the navigation drawer controlled by my activity?
This seems to work. The answer is much simpler than I thought it would be.
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View fragView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mainmenu, container, false);
button1 = (Button) fragView.findViewById(R.id.button1);
mDrawerLayout = (DrawerLayout)getActivity().findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
mDrawerList = (ListView)getActivity().findViewById(R.id.left_drawer);
button1.setOnClickListener(this);
return fragView;
}
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(mDrawerList);
}
Thank you for your answers.
if you need open the slide:
mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(Gravity.LEFT); //Edit Gravity.START need API 14
if you need close the slide
mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(Gravity.LEFT); //Edit Gravity.START need API 14
EXAMPLE
my mDrawerLayout is instanced here:
mDrawerLayout = (DrawerLayout)findViewById(R.id.my_drawer_layout);
my slide state:
mSlideState=false;
if you need to know the slide menu state (closed, opened). Use this code:
mDrawerLayout.setDrawerListener(new ActionBarDrawerToggle(this,
mDrawerLayout,
R.drawable.ic_menu_slide,
0,
0){
@Override
public void onDrawerClosed(View drawerView) {
super.onDrawerClosed(drawerView);
mSlideState=false;//is Closed
}
@Override
public void onDrawerOpened(View drawerView) {
super.onDrawerOpened(drawerView);
mSlideState=true;//is Opened
}});
finally. You can use your click event like this:
public void clickEventSlide(){
if(mSlideState){
mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(Gravity.END);
}else{
mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(Gravity.END);
}}
in my case my slide menu is at the right (Gravity.END), but if you need on the left, try with Gravity.START
This work for me, I hope solved your problem.
if you are using from default navigation activity in android you just have to
add this code in click listener of button --->
mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(Gravity.START);
for closing you do not have to do something.
Use the standard callback model as described here:
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/fragments/communicating.html
When you press the button, initiate a callback to the activity and have it open your drawer.
I have a much simpler solution using isDrawerOpen()
.
This automatically closes or opens the navigation drawer based on the drawer's current state (Opened/Closed)
Button hamMenu = findViewById(R.id.ham_menu);
hamMenu.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
DrawerLayout navDrawer = findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
// If navigation drawer is not open yet open it else close it.
if(!navDrawer.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) navDrawer.openDrawer(Gravity.START);
else navDrawer.closeDrawer(Gravity.END);
}
});