How to Display Navigation Drawer in all activities

Question

I have a Navigation Drawer which should appear in all my activities.

I saw many questions similar to this & found a solution like Extending the MainActivity with the Other Activities .

So i extended My Main Activity to my Second Activity.But the Drawer is not being showed in the Second Activity

MainActivity

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity
{
    private ListView mDrawerList;
    private DrawerLayout mDrawer;
    private CustomActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle;
    private String[] menuItems;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    supportRequestWindowFeature(WindowCompat.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);
    // getSupportActionBar().hide();
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main_drawer);

    // enable ActionBar app icon to behave as action to toggle nav drawer
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

    mDrawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);

    // set a custom shadow that overlays the main content when the drawer
    // opens
    mDrawer.setDrawerShadow(R.drawable.drawer_shadow, GravityCompat.START);

    _initMenu();
    mDrawerToggle = new CustomActionBarDrawerToggle(this, mDrawer);
    mDrawer.setDrawerListener(mDrawerToggle);

}

private void _initMenu()
{
    NsMenuAdapter mAdapter = new NsMenuAdapter(this);

    // Add Header
    mAdapter.addHeader(R.string.ns_menu_main_header);

    // Add first block

    menuItems = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.ns_menu_items);
    String[] menuItemsIcon = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.ns_menu_items_icon);

    int res = 0;
    for (String item : menuItems)
    {

        int id_title = getResources().getIdentifier(item, "string", this.getPackageName());
        int id_icon = getResources().getIdentifier(menuItemsIcon[res], "drawable", this.getPackageName());

        NsMenuItemModel mItem = new NsMenuItemModel(id_title, id_icon);
        // if (res==1) mItem.counter=12; //it is just an example...
        // if (res==3) mItem.counter=3; //it is just an example...
        mAdapter.addItem(mItem);
        res++;
    }

    mAdapter.addHeader(R.string.ns_menu_main_header2);

    mDrawerList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.drawer);
    if (mDrawerList != null)
        mDrawerList.setAdapter(mAdapter);

    mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new DrawerItemClickListener());

}

@Override
protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onPostCreate(savedInstanceState);
    // Sync the toggle state after onRestoreInstanceState has occurred.
    mDrawerToggle.syncState();
}

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig)
{
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    mDrawerToggle.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.control_menu, menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

/* Called whenever we call invalidateOptionsMenu() */
@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    // If the nav drawer is open, hide action items related to the content
    // view
    boolean drawerOpen = mDrawer.isDrawerOpen(mDrawerList);
    menu.findItem(R.id.action_keyboard).setVisible(!drawerOpen);
    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
    /*
     * The action bar home/up should open or close the drawer.
     * ActionBarDrawerToggle will take care of this.
     */
    if (mDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item))
    {
        return true;
    }

    // Handle your other action bar items...
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

private class CustomActionBarDrawerToggle extends ActionBarDrawerToggle
{

    public CustomActionBarDrawerToggle(Activity mActivity, DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout)
    {
        super(mActivity, mDrawerLayout, R.drawable.ic_drawer, R.string.ns_menu_open, R.string.ns_menu_close);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDrawerClosed(View view)
    {
        getSupportActionBar().setTitle(getString(R.string.ns_menu_close));
        supportInvalidateOptionsMenu(); // creates call to
                                        // onPrepareOptionsMenu()
    }

    @Override
    public void onDrawerOpened(View drawerView)
    {
        getSupportActionBar().setTitle(getString(R.string.ns_menu_open));
        supportInvalidateOptionsMenu(); // creates call to
                                        // onPrepareOptionsMenu()
    }
}

private class DrawerItemClickListener implements ListView.OnItemClickListener
{

    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id)
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Tutorial.class);
        startActivity(intent);

    }

}

 }

SecondActivity

 public class Tutorial extends MainActivity
{
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.help);
    }

}

Answer 1

Here is a simple and fast way to do it in android studio:

1. Create a new activity (Navigation drawer activity) from the gallery, and name it whatever you want, android studio will create eveything for you (the class and the xml files that you can customize it later)

2. In other activities you should extend your Navigation drawer activity, and make sure these other activities has "no action bar" in the fanifests file (android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar")

3. You should modify your other activities as follows:

   public class Mainactivity extends NavActivity
   {
   super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
      //inflate your activity layout here!
      View contentView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_main, null, false);
      drawer.addView(contentView, 0);
   }
   

Note: the mainactivity will extend the action bar of the NavActivity, the NavActivity has a full functional action bar that will call the navigation drawer

I hope it will work with you