Full width Navigation Drawer

Question

I'd like to create a full width navigation drawer. Setting layout_width to match_parent on @+id/left_drawer yields in width of about 80% of screen space. This seems to be the standard behavior. Do I have to override onMeasure() of DrawerLayout?

My current code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <FrameLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/black"
        android:id="@+id/mainFragmentContainer">
    </FrameLayout>

    <include
        android:id="@+id/left_drawer"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        layout="@layout/drawer"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can also take a look at SlidingDrawer class. It's a deprecated class, but as the documentation says you can write your own implementation based on its source code.

Answer 2

Because all these answers did not work on OS 6.0.1, I'll post here the solution that worked for me in combination with DrawerLayout + NavigationView.

So all what I do is change the width of the NavigationView programatically:

mNavigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nv_navigation);
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
DrawerLayout.LayoutParams params = (DrawerLayout.LayoutParams) mNavigationView.getLayoutParams();
params.width = metrics.widthPixels;
mNavigationView.setLayoutParams(params);

This works for all screen sizes.