Android SlidingDrawer from top?

Question

Is there any way to make the drawer slide from top to bottom?

Fresh

You can look at github.com/Ali-Rezaei/SlidingDrawer, which mekes it possible for you to slide from any side. – Northing

Answer 1

The default SlidingDrawer class doesn't allow this. You can use the Panel class from here to get something very similar though: http://code.google.com/p/android-misc-widgets/

http://www.ohloh.net/p/android-misc-widgets

Evangelize

Did you get the Panels there working? I'm having a really hard time integrating that Panel, which seems to be very cool though. My issue is here, if somebody could look over it code.google.com/p/android-misc-widgets/issues/detail?id=9 The error says "Binary XML file line #15: The content attribute is required and must refer to a valid child." – Research

I had to wrap the panel widget into a frame layout to get it working – Research

The top-dropper had an unwanted behaviour: The content below was moved to the bottom. I fixed it this way: <FrameLayout><RelativeLayout><other stuff below/><panel/></RelativeLayout></FrameLayout> – Research

Panel implementation doesn't work on phones such as HTC One and other 4.4 devices. – Octavie

Answer 2

I've found a simple way to do that. All you have to do is to set the rotation of 180º for the slidingDrawer, the content and the handle. It's easier to understand with an example, so look what I've done:

First, I'll show you my old SlidingDrawer, from bottom to top.

<SlidingDrawer xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/slidingDrawer"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:handle="@+id/handle"
    android:content="@+id/content">
    <ImageView android:id="@+id/handle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />
    <ImageView android:id="@+id/content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="#FF0000"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />
</SlidingDrawer>

Now look at the changes I made, setting the rotation of 180º

<SlidingDrawer xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/slidingDrawer"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:handle="@+id/handle"
    android:content="@+id/content"
    android:rotation="180">
    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/handle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <ImageView android:id="@+id/imageView"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher"
            android:rotation="180" />
    </LinearLayout>
    <ImageView android:id="@+id/content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="#FF0000"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:rotation="180" />
</SlidingDrawer>

Note that I also created a LinearLayout to set as handle, and didn't change it's rotation, but I changed the rotation of it's child. This was to prevent a small issue I had, but everything is working fine and it's simple.

Eous

Note android:rotation is API Level 11 (Android 3.0). – Barnyard

when I am running the application using the above layout the error is displaying error: No resource identifier found for attribute 'rotation' in package 'android' – Snaggletooth

SlidingDrawer was deprecated in API level 17 – Watchband

this is best answer for me in stackoverflow :) thanks a lot – Mohl

Answer 3

I was very unsatisfied with the solutions provided here:

• The Panel class from http://code.google.com/p/android-misc-widgets/ was really unintuitive to use and also had bugs and visual glitches (unusable for productive use) and no docs at all
• SlidingTray class from http://aniqroid.sileria.com/doc/api/ was nested in a lib needing too much dependency and for me, I did not get it to work at all
• using android:rotation="180" requires API Level 11, and my target is 10.

(no offense to the respective devs, trying to be objective here)

So my solution was to extract SlidingTray from this lib http://aniqroid.sileria.com/doc/api/ (by Ahmed Shakil) and refactored it a bit since it had some quirks needed to be used within Ahmed's lib. SlidingTray is based on Androids own SlidingDrawer, so I guess it is stable. My modification consists of 1 class which I called MultipleOrientationSlidingDrawer and you have to add declare-styleables in your attrs.xml. Other than that it has pretty much the same usage as SlidingDrawer with the additional "orientation" attribute..

Check it out: MultipleOrientationSlidingDrawer (source & example) @ gist

Here is a usage example (also provided in the gist)

<your.app.MultipleOrientationSlidingDrawer
        xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto/your.app"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        custom:handle="@+id/handle_c"
        custom:content="@+id/content_c"
        custom:orientation="top">
        <RelativeLayout
            android:id="@id/handle_c"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="30dp"
            android:background="#333333">
            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:text="Handle Text"
                android:gravity="left|center_vertical"/>
        </RelativeLayout>

        <FrameLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:id="@id/content_c"
            android:background="#555555">

            <ListView
                android:id="@+id/listview_credits"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
        </FrameLayout>
    </your.app.MultipleOrientationSlidingDrawer>

Disclaimer: All the credits go to respective dev. I did not test this solution extensively, it works great with TOP and BOTTOM set in XML. I did not try to use it programmatically.

Tetrachloride

It is good, but have you seen problem with animation ? Have you found a solution for blinking of view while it moving? – Boyles

I did have blinking animiations with code.google.com/p/android-misc-widgets , but not with this apporach (so far) – Tetrachloride

Is it possible to make the ` FrameLayout` content_c not to take up all available space because I see it pushed everything down even do I set android:layout_height="wrap_content" – Kemp

Answer 4

I had to do the same for one of my projects and I ended up writing my own widget for this. I called it SlidingTray is now part of my open source Aniqroid library.

http://aniqroid.sileria.com/doc/api/ (Look for downloads at the bottom or use google code project to see more download options: http://code.google.com/p/aniqroid/downloads/list)

The class documentation is here: http://aniqroid.sileria.com/doc/api/com/sileria/android/view/SlidingTray.html

Barrister

I tried this one, but when I implement it using the xml example, I get a nullpointer exception at com.sileria.android.Resource.getIdentifier. Would love to use this. – Loculus

Oops, looks like I forgot Kit.init()... Works great now! – Loculus

Also if you copy/paste the XML example from the documentation, it's com.sileria.android.view.SlidingTray and not com.sileria.android.SlidingTray – Sibyls

its also not working and through NullPointerException @Loculus !! – Shocking

Your Kit.destroy() method does not work. onTerminate() wont get called on a real device only in emulator. There is no real way to get a callback when the app is "terminated" since the android paradigm does not work that way. – Tetrachloride

Hi Ahmed! Thanks for this library, I think it rocks. I have ONE problem : there seems to be a delay on my sliding drawer handle. It's not a time based delay but an x position based delay. I have to slide the handle for like 150px to the right before it starts reacting and moving accordingly... Any ideas? – Valarievalda