[android] In android how to set navigation drawer header image and name programmatically in class file?

In android studio 1.4.1, I have created new Navigation Drawer Project which is default.My issue is in this project there is nav_header_main.xml file which is for navigation header image and name. I want this image and name should be set programmatically in my main class activity. How to do this, I tried lot but the app crashes.

nav_header_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout        
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/headerView"
android:layout_height="@dimen/nav_header_height"
android:background="@drawable/side_nav_bar"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark">

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imageView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/nav_header_vertical_spacing"
    android:src="@android:drawable/sym_def_app_icon" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/nav_header_vertical_spacing"
    android:text="Android Studio"
    android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Body1" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="[email protected]" />

</LinearLayout>

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout            

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:openDrawer="start">

<include
    layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />

    </android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

MainActivity.Class

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton;
import android.support.design.widget.NavigationView;
import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar;
import android.support.v4.view.GravityCompat;
import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
        implements NavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        LinearLayout headerImageView= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.headerView);


        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        FloatingActionButton fab = (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.fab);
        fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                Snackbar.make(view, "Replace with your own action", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
                        .setAction("Action", null).show();
            }
        });

        DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        ActionBarDrawerToggle toggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(
                this, drawer, toolbar, R.string.navigation_drawer_open, R.string.navigation_drawer_close);
        drawer.setDrawerListener(toggle);
        toggle.syncState();

        NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
        navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this);

    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        if (drawer.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) {
            drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
        } else {
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"working",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("StatementWithEmptyBody")
    @Override
    public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle navigation view item clicks here.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        if (id == R.id.nav_camara) {
            // Handle the camera action
        } else if (id == R.id.nav_gallery) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_slideshow) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_manage) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_share) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_send) {

        }

        DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);

        return true;
    }
}

The answer is


As mentioned in the bug 190226, Since version 23.1.0 getting header layout view with: navigationView.findViewById(R.id.navigation_header_text) no longer works.

A workaround is to inflate the headerview programatically and find view by ID from the inflated header view.

For example:

View headerView = navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.navigation_header);
headerView.findViewById(R.id.navigation_header_text);

Ideally there should be a method getHeaderView() but it has already been proposed, let's see and wait for it to be released in the feature release of design support library.


don't add header in xml add using code by inflating layout

View hView =  navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.nav_header_main);
ImageView imgvw = (ImageView)hView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
TextView tv = (TextView)hView.findViewById(R.id.textview);
imgvw .setImageResource();
tv.settext("new text");

EDIT : Works with design library upto 23.0.1 but doesn't work on 23.1.0

In main layout xml you will have NavigationView defined, in that use app:headerLayout to set the header view.

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_drawer_header"
        app:menu="@menu/navigation_drawer_menu" />

And the @layout/nav_drawer_header will be the place holder of the image and texts.

nav_drawer_header.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="170dp"
android:orientation="vertical">

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/headerRelativeLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"
        android:src="@drawable/background" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/action_bar_size"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:background="#40000000"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingLeft="16dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:paddingTop="5dp">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_marginLeft="35dp"
            android:orientation="vertical"
            android:weightSum="2">


            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/navHeaderTitle"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
                android:textColor="@android:color/white" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/navHeaderSubTitle"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                android:textColor="@android:color/white" />

        </LinearLayout>

    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

And in your main class, you can take handle of Imageview and TextView as like normal other views.

TextView navHeaderTitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.navHeaderTitle);
navHeaderTitle.setText("Application Name");

TextView navHeaderSubTitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.navHeaderSubTitle);
navHeaderSubTitle.setText("Application Caption");

Hope this helps.


val navigationView: NavigationView =  findViewById(R.id.nv)
val header: View = navigationView.getHeaderView(0)
val tv: TextView = header.findViewById(R.id.profilename)
tv.text = "Your_Text"

This will fix your problem <3


  nav = ( NavigationView ) findViewById( R.id.navigation );

    if( nav != null ){
        LinearLayout mParent = ( LinearLayout ) nav.getHeaderView( 0 );

        if( mParent != null ){
            // Set your values to the image and text view by declaring and setting as you need to here.

            SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences("user_data", MODE_PRIVATE);
            String photoUrl = prefs.getString("photo_url", null);
            String user_name = prefs.getString("name", "User");

            if(photoUrl!=null) {
                Log.e("Photo Url: ", photoUrl);

                TextView userName = mParent.findViewById(R.id.user_name);
                userName.setText(user_name);

                ImageView user_imageView = mParent.findViewById(R.id.avatar);

                RequestOptions requestOptions = new RequestOptions();
                requestOptions.placeholder(R.drawable.ic_user_24dp);
                requestOptions.error(R.drawable.ic_user_24dp);

                Glide.with(this).load(photoUrl)
                        .apply(requestOptions).thumbnail(0.5f).into(user_imageView);

            }

        }
    }

Hope this helps.


Here is my code below perfectly working Do not add the header in NavigationView tag in activity_main.xml

<include
    layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer"
    app:itemBackground="@drawable/active_drawer_color" />

add header programmatically with below code

View navHeaderView = navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.nav_header_main);
    headerUserName = (TextView) navHeaderView.findViewById(R.id.nav_header_username);
    headerMobileNo = (TextView) navHeaderView.findViewById(R.id.nav_header_mobile);
    headerMobileNo.setText("+918861899697");
    headerUserName.setText("Anirudh R Huilgol");

First you need to access the navigation drawer in your MainActivity(or the calling activity) like this:

    NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);

Then you need to remove the header layout from the activity_main.xml because the layout will be inflated programatically in the MainActivity. Your activity_main.xml should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout            

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:openDrawer="start">

<include
    layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />

    </android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Then in your MainActivity, we inflate the nav_header_main layout and get access to its views, in this case the ImageView and TextView

//inflate header layout
View navView =  navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.nav_header_main);
//reference to views
ImageView imgvw = (ImageView)navView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
TextView tv = (TextView)navView.findViewById(R.id.textview);
//set views
imgvw.setImageResource(R.drawable.your_image);
tv.setText("new text");

navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this);

You can read more here


I know this is an old post but i am sure that this might help someone down the road.

You can simply get the headerView element of the Navigation view by doing this:

 NavigationView mView = ( NavigationView ) findViewById( R.id.nav_view );

 if( mView != null ){
     LinearLayout mParent = ( LinearLayout ) mView.getHeaderView( 0 );

     if( mParent != null ){
        // Set your values to the image and text view by declaring and setting as you need to here. 
     }
 }

I hope that this helps someone.


Here is the method you can use to get header view and set data accourdingly

val headerView: View? = navigationView.getHeaderView(0) // Index of the added headerView  

// Now you can access child views of the header view
val titleTextView: TextView? = headerView?.findViewById(R.id.titleTextView)

NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
View hView =  navigationView.getHeaderView(0);
TextView nav_user = (TextView)hView.findViewById(R.id.nav_name);
nav_user.setText(user);

hope this help!


If you're using bindings you can do

val headerView = binding.navView.getHeaderView(0)
val headerBinding = NavDrawerHeaderBinding.bind(headerView)
headerBinding.textView.text = "Your text here"

NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view); navigationView.addHeaderView(yourview);


In Kotlin

    val hView = nav_view.getHeaderView(0)
    val textViewName = hView.findViewById(R.id.textViewName) as TextView
    val textViewEmail = hView.findViewById(R.id.textViewEmail) as TextView
    val imgvw = hView.findViewById(R.id.imageView) as ImageView
    imgvw.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_menu_gallery)

   FirebaseAuth firebaseauth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance(); 

   NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);   //displays text of header of nav drawer.
    View headerview = navigationView.getHeaderView(0);

    TextView tt1 = (TextView) headerview.findViewById(R.id.textview_username);
    tt1.setText(firebaseauth.getCurrentUser().getDisplayName());//username of logged in user.  

   TextView tt = (TextView) headerview.findViewById(R.id.textView_emailid);
    tt.setText(firebaseauth.getCurrentUser().getEmail());    //email id of logged in user.

    final ImageView img1 = (ImageView) headerview.findViewById(R.id.imageView_userimage);
    Glide.with(getApplicationContext())
            .load(firebaseauth.getCurrentUser().getPhotoUrl()).asBitmap().atMost().error(R.drawable.ic_selfie_point_icon)   //asbitmap after load always.
            .into(new SimpleTarget<Bitmap>() {
                @Override
                public void onResourceReady(Bitmap resource, GlideAnimation<? super Bitmap> glideAnimation) {
                    img1.setImageBitmap(resource);
                }
            });

I have made this code by myself with some logic...Its 100% working.....pls do upvote my ans.

The textview and imageview are from @layout/nav_header_main.xml


It's and old post, but it's new for me. So, it is straight forward! In this part of the code:

 public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

} , I bound an ImageView to the LinearLayout, which contains the ImageView from the example, listed below. Mind: it's the same code you get when you start a new project, and choose the template "Navigation Drawer Activity":

<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/nav_header_vertical_spacing"
android:src="@android:drawable/sym_def_app_icon" />

I gave the LinearLayout and ID, inside nav_header_main.xml (in my case I chose 'navigation_header_container' , so it went this way:

LinearLayout lV = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.navigation_header_container);

    ivCloseDrawer = (ImageView) lV.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
    ivCloseDrawer.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
        }
    });

Note: I have a private ImageView ivCloseDrawer declared at the top, before onCreate (MainActivity).

It worked fine! Hope it helps, Best Regards.


Also you can use Kotlinx features

val hView = nav_view.getHeaderView(0)
hView.textViewName.text = "lorem ipsum"
hView.imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_menu_gallery)

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