[android] How to replace deprecated android.support.v4.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle

Yesterday (17-10-2014) I have update Android SDK and support-library-v4.jar of my App, now I get deprecation warning related to ActionBarDrawerToggle, reading the documentation seems that I have to use the ActionBarDrawerToggle in support-library-v7.appcompact.jar.

Here some parts of my Activity that could be relevants:

import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.support.v4.view.GravityCompat;
import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;


public class MyActivity extends FragmentActivity {
    private ActionBar bar;
    private CustomActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle;
    private DrawerLayout mDrawer;
    private ListView mDrawerList;

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_infoviewer);

        bar = this.getActionBar();

        bar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

        bar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
        bar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
        mDrawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);

        mDrawer.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.White));
        initNavMenu();
        try {
            mDrawerToggle = new CustomActionBarDrawerToggle(this, mDrawer);
        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        mDrawer.setDrawerListener(mDrawerToggle);
    }

    ....

    private void initNavMenu() {
        NavMenuAdapter mAdapter = MyDrawers.getDefaultDrawer(MyActivity.this, true);
        mDrawerList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.drawer);
        mDrawerList.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.GreenMoneyDark));
        if (mDrawerList != null) mDrawerList.setAdapter(mAdapter);
        mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new DrawerItemClickListener(MyActivity.this, mDrawer, mDrawerList));
    }

    @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);
    }

    private class CustomActionBarDrawerToggle extends ActionBarDrawerToggle {

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

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

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

}

I have tried to copy support-library-v7 and replace

import android.support.v4.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;

with

 import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;

this has caused compilation problem in

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

So I have tried to replace R.drawable.action_drawer with

public CustomActionBarDrawerToggle(Activity mActivity,
                                           DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout) {
            super(mActivity, mDrawerLayout,new Toolbar(MyActivity.this) ,
                    R.string.ns_menu_open, R.string.ns_menu_close);
        }

this compiles but crash at Runtime with

 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroid/support/v7/appcompat/R$attr;
            at android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar.<init>(Toolbar.java:190)
            at android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar.<init>(Toolbar.java:186)

Note that android-support-v7-appcompat.jar is correctly added in project dependencies

There's no need for you to use super-call of the ActionBarDrawerToggle which requires the Toolbar. This means instead of using the following constructor:

ActionBarDrawerToggle(Activity activity, DrawerLayout drawerLayout, Toolbar toolbar, int openDrawerContentDescRes, int closeDrawerContentDescRes)

You should use this one:

ActionBarDrawerToggle(Activity activity, DrawerLayout drawerLayout, int openDrawerContentDescRes, int closeDrawerContentDescRes)

So basically the only thing you have to do is to remove your custom drawable:

super(mActivity, mDrawerLayout, R.string.ns_menu_open, R.string.ns_menu_close);

More about the "new" ActionBarDrawerToggle in the Docs (click).

you must use import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;

and use the constructor

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

and if the drawer toggle button becomes dark then you must use the supportActionBar provided in the support library.

You can implement supportActionbar from this link: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/setting-up.html

Insted of

drawer.setDrawerListener(toggle);

You can use

drawer.addDrawerListener(toggle);