[android] How to create a custom navigation drawer in android

The easier solution for me was:

Considerations:

• This solution requires autogenerated Navigation Drawer Activity provided by Android Studio.
• Classes DrawerItem, CustomDrawerAdapter and layout custom_drawer_item.xml were taken from this tutorial.

1. Create this class for wrap the custom drawer item:

public class DrawerItem {

  String ItemName;
  int imgResID;

  public DrawerItem(String itemName, int imgResID) {
        super();
        ItemName = itemName;
        this.imgResID = imgResID;
  }

  public String getItemName() {
        return ItemName;
  }
  public void setItemName(String itemName) {
        ItemName = itemName;
  }
  public int getImgResID() {
        return imgResID;
  }
  public void setImgResID(int imgResID) {
        this.imgResID = imgResID;
  }
}

2. Create custom layout (custom_drawer_item.xml) for your drawer items:

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

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/itemLayout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_marginTop="0dp"
    android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:minHeight="55dp">

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/drawer_icon"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/drawer_itemName"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
    </LinearLayout>

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
        android:background="#DADADC">
    </View>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

3. Create your custom adapter:

import java.util.List;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class CustomDrawerAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<DrawerItem> {

Context context;
List<DrawerItem> drawerItemList;
int layoutResID;

public CustomDrawerAdapter(Context context, int layoutResourceID, List<DrawerItem> listItems) {
    super(context, layoutResourceID, listItems);
    this.context = context;
    this.drawerItemList = listItems;
    this.layoutResID = layoutResourceID;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    DrawerItemHolder drawerHolder;
    View view = convertView;

    if (view == null) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = ((Activity) context).getLayoutInflater();
        drawerHolder = new DrawerItemHolder();

        view = inflater.inflate(layoutResID, parent, false);
        drawerHolder.ItemName = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.drawer_itemName);
        drawerHolder.icon = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.drawer_icon);

        view.setTag(drawerHolder);

    } else {
        drawerHolder = (DrawerItemHolder) view.getTag();
    }

    DrawerItem dItem = (DrawerItem) this.drawerItemList.get(position);

    drawerHolder.icon.setImageDrawable(view.getResources().getDrawable(
            dItem.getImgResID()));
    drawerHolder.ItemName.setText(dItem.getItemName());

    return view;
}

private static class DrawerItemHolder {
    TextView ItemName;
    ImageView icon;
}
}

4. In autogenerated NavigationDrawerFragment class onCreateView method, replace the autogenerated adapter for this:

ArrayList<DrawerItem> dataList = new ArrayList<DrawerItem>();
dataList.add(new DrawerItem(getString(R.string.title_section1), R.drawable.ic_action_1));
dataList.add(new DrawerItem(getString(R.string.title_section2), R.drawable.ic_action_2));
dataList.add(new DrawerItem(getString(R.string.title_section3), R.drawable.ic_action_3));

mDrawerListView.setAdapter(new CustomDrawerAdapter(
        getActivity(),
        R.layout.custom_drawer_item,
        dataList));

Remember replace R.string.title_sectionN and R.drawable.ic_action_N for your own resources.