Android DrawerLayout - No drawer view found with gravity

Asked 8/12, 2014 at 1:39 Answered 19/10, 2022 at 0:33

When I click on my drawer toggle I get the following exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No drawer view found with gravity LEFT

This is my activity_drawer.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    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">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"/>

    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/navigation"
        android:layout_width="240dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:name="com.xyz.ui.navigation.NavigationFragment"
        tools:layout="@layout/fragment_navigation" />

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

My fragment_navigation.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ListView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start">

</ListView>

And my list item:

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

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:id="@+id/navigation_item_text"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
</LinearLayout>

Kaneshakang answered 8/12, 2014 at 1:39 Comment(5)

On some devices START==LEFT on another ==RIGHT, it's for RTL right-to-left writting support. use everywhere START OR LEFT for fixing to chosen side on all devices – Duramen 8/12, 2014 at 1:45

@MikeM. No, in my Java code i do not use that ;) – Kaneshakang 8/12, 2014 at 1:49

@Kaneshakang : Is there any particular reason you're using a Fragment in your activity_drawer.xml and then simply using a layout with nothing but a ListView in it? What happens if you remove the <fragment ... /> block from activity_drawer.xml and replace it with the ListView? – Mixture 8/12, 2014 at 2:18

Your Drawer needs to be outside of the LinearLayout. – Unearned 8/12, 2014 at 3:5

If you check more closely, you will notice that there are indeed two top level elements: LinearLayout and fragment. – Cockaigne 16/9, 2016 at 21:57

From documentation

To use a DrawerLayout, position your primary content view as the first child with a width and height of match_parent. Add drawers as child views after the main content view and set the layout_gravity appropriately. Drawers commonly use match_parent for height with a fixed width.

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    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">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"/>

    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

    </LinearLayout>

    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/navigation"
        android:layout_width="240dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:name="com.xyz.ui.navigation.NavigationFragment"
        tools:layout="@layout/fragment_navigation" />

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

Illustrious answered 8/12, 2014 at 6:3 Comment(1)

Simple solution and solved this error for me. Thanks! – Ev 2/10, 2018 at 5:9

Ok. Let me make the things simple and clear here.
What is DrawerLayout?https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/DrawerLayout.html

DrawerLayout Acts as a top-level container for window content that allows for interactive "drawer" views to be pulled out from the edge of the window. Drawer positioning and layout is controlled using the android:layout_gravity attribute on child views corresponding to which side of the view you want the drawer to emerge from: left or right. (Or start/end on platform versions that support layout direction.) To use a DrawerLayout, position your primary content view as the first child with a width and height of match_parent. Add drawers as child views after the main content view and set the layout_gravity appropriately. Drawers commonly use match_parent for height with a fixed width.

What is DrawerLayout?, In Simple words:

The layout supported by Android that allows you to have an overlay screen, called as drawer, over your main screen.
DrawerLayout needs childviews to work, similar to the LinearLayout and RelativeLayout.
The childview must have either of the property set
android:layout_gravity="start" OR android:layout_gravity="left"
DrawerLayout uses this childView to know from where to start showing the Drawer i.e. From Left to Right or Right to Left. There are countries where the text is read from Right to Left.

Techie Stuff:

EVENT#1: ActionBarDrawerToggle.java is set as the drawer listener for the DrawerLayout

    DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawerLayout);
    ActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(this, mDrawerLayout,
                toolbar,R.string.navigation_drawer_open,
                R.string.navigation_drawer_close)
                mDrawerLayout.setDrawerListener(mDrawerToggle);

EVENT#2: The user clicks on the Toolbar.navigationIcon that calls the toggle() function
ActionBarDrawerToggle.java (android-sdk\sources\android-22\android\support\v7\app\ActionBarDrawerToggle.java)

    private void toggle() { 
        if (mDrawerLayout.isDrawerVisible(GravityCompat.START)) {
            mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START); 
        } else {
            mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(GravityCompat.START); 
        } 
    }

Gravity.java (android-sdk\sources\android-22\android\view\Gravity.java)

/** Push object to x-axis position at the start of its container,
    not changing its size.*/ 
    public static final int START = RELATIVE_LAYOUT_DIRECTION | Gravity.LEFT;

EVENT#3: Toggle() function calls the mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(Gravity.START)
DrawerLayout.java (support-v4-22.1.1.jar library)

    /*** Open the specified drawer by animating it out of view. **
    @param gravity Gravity.LEFT to move the left drawer or Gravity.RIGHT
    for the right. * GravityCompat.START or GravityCompat.END may also
    be used. */ 
    public void openDrawer(@EdgeGravity int gravity) { 
        final View drawerView = findDrawerWithGravity(gravity); 
        if (drawerView == null) { 
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("No drawer view found with gravity " +
    gravityToString(gravity)); 
        }
        openDrawer(drawerView); 
    }

EVENT#4: If no childView of the DrawerLayout is set with the layout_gravity="start” or left the No drawer view found with gravity LEFT is thrown.

Solution:

    <android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        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">
    <!--This will appear when the drawer is closed (default view)--> 
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical"> 
        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" /> 
    </LinearLayout> 
    <!-- This will appear when the drawer is opened -->
    <!-- the property,android:layout_gravity, is used internally to identify imageView as the view to be displayed when the drawer is opened -->
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height=" match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="left"
        android:background="@drawable/img_shree_ganesha" /> 

    </android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
I hope that helps. Happy Coding…

Archaism answered 22/7, 2015 at 17:5 Comment(0)

The "Android Drawer" needs to be a direct child node of the "DrawerLayout".

In your example above (re: original question example), you only have a single direct child node under "DrawerLayout" ("LinearLayout"), and no drawer view after it.

Move your drawer view out of your LinearLayout and place it after it.

Garlaand answered 24/3, 2015 at 22:19 Comment(0)

add

android:layout_gravity="start"

to NavigationView

like this

<com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_menu"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:foregroundGravity="right"
    android:id="@+id/nv">

    <include layout="@layout/drawer_menu"/>
</com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView>

Bivins answered 21/2, 2020 at 19:29 Comment(0)

in my case, because DrawerLayout attr: tools:openDrawer="start" i added android:layout_gravity="start" for the second element

 <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"
    tools:openDrawer="right"
    tools:context=".map.MapFragment">

<include layout="@layout/fragment_map" />

<FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/content_frame"
        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="right"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer_view"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_nav_header"/>

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

Magnetochemistry answered 16/3, 2016 at 13:13 Comment(1)

Exactly what I was missing. Without the tools:openDrawer matching the navigationView layout_gravity, I received crashes as per the original post. – Homoousian 16/3, 2016 at 23:36

Are you using right to left(RTL) layout? Setting gravity left on RTL layout would throw this exception. This can be fixed by setting gravity start instead of left

Admetus answered 29/6, 2018 at 14:24 Comment(0)

I solve this problem like this :

XML :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.drawerlayout.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"
    android:layoutDirection="rtl"
    tools:openDrawer="end"
    >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical">

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

        <include layout="@layout/content_main" />

    </LinearLayout>

    <com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navigationView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:layoutDirection="rtl"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
        app:menu="@menu/menu_drawer" />

</androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout>

AND IN JAVA:

 if (mDrawerLayout != null && mDrawerLayout.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.END)) {
        mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.END);
    }

I hope this helps someone!

Barabarabarabas answered 15/11, 2019 at 12:44 Comment(0)

You should use the same gravity in DrawerLayout and NavigationView: for example: tools:openDrawer="right"in DrawerLayout tag and android:layout_gravity="right" in NavigationView tag

<?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"
    tools:openDrawer="right"
    tools:context=".map.MapFragment">

<include layout="@layout/fragment_map" />
<FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/content_frame"
        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="right"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer_view"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_nav_header"/>

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

Headlock answered 8/12, 2018 at 7:17 Comment(0)

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No drawer view found with gravity LEFT

SOLUTION Assign a layout_gravity = "start" or "left" attribute to one of your DrawerLayout child view if your drawer layout already have a child view. OR Simply create a child view inside your DrawerLayout View and give it a layout_gravity = "start" or "left" attribute. for example

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout 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:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:id="@+id/mDrawer_Layout"
        tools:context="com.rad5.matdesign.MainActivity">

        <android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

            <android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
                android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
                tools:openDrawer="start">

    <!-- Notice that here an image view as a child of the Drawer layout was -->
    <!-- given a layout_gravity="start" -->

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_gravity="start"/>

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

            <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
                android:id="@+id/appBar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

                <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"/>

                <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
                    android:id="@+id/tabs"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
            </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

            <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
                android:id="@+id/viewpager"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" />

        </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

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

    </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Spectrochemistry answered 26/8, 2017 at 1:59 Comment(0)

The error fixed after replacing

<fragment
        android:id="@+id/fragmentContainerView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:name="com.example.MyFragment"/>

with

<androidx.fragment.app.FragmentContainerView
        android:id="@+id/fragmentContainerView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start" />

and added Fragment instance to the FragmentContainerView in onCreate()

supportFragmentManager.beginTransaction()
    .add(R.id.fragmentContainerView, MyFragment())
    .commit()

Pimple answered 19/10, 2022 at 0:33 Comment(0)

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