How did Google manage to do this? Slide ActionBar in Android application

Asked 27/6, 2012 at 20:30 Answered 17/12, 2013 at 9:0

Solved android android-layout android-widget android-actionbar android-side-navigation

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I really want to implement this (the side navigation) in an app of my own, does anyone know how Google managed to do this?

They seem to have pulled the current window aside and put in a fly-in navigation of their own.

Anabolism answered 27/6, 2012 at 20:30 Comment(8)

I'd guess that they just have a layout that contains 2 layouts: 1 is the main app, and the other is the sidebar. When the sidebar is activated, it pushes the main app layout aside. This is just a guess though, so I didn't put it as an answer. – Determinate 27/6, 2012 at 20:32

I believe someone asked this at the Q&A after the "What's new in Android" talk at IO. The recorded version isn't available yet, and I unfortunately do not remember what the answer was. – Sell 27/6, 2012 at 20:44

@Tanis.7x The answer was pretty much that they don't plan a framework component for this menu yet, but that you can find a good series of blog posts over here (as far as I remember). – Stirring 27/6, 2012 at 21:3

Sounds right to me, and thanks for the link! – Sell 27/6, 2012 at 21:7

I read that blog post. They say they implemented a custom actionbar. Now this sounds reasonable by a developer but not by Google that is hacking its own api! – Hackworth 27/6, 2012 at 21:56

But that's expected in an open system that is always encouraging people to invent new and good ways for user interaction (in this case, the innovation is in the Android app, as this is an ancient-old idea). – Brussels 27/6, 2012 at 23:8

The answers to this question are now "quazi" out of date. Google has now introduce the Navigation Drawer, and the approach will be different than that of the ones currently listed. – Helmick 5/12, 2013 at 1:13

Link to the Navigation Drawer: developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation-drawer.html – Drogheda 8/5, 2014 at 19:35

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In fact, there's a way to do this. Even without implementing your own ActionBar.

Just have a look at the hierachyviewer! (Located in the tools directory)

There's the DecorView, and a LinearLayout as a child. This LinearLayout contains both the ActionBar and the other content. So, you can simply apply some FrameLayout.LayoutParams to this LinearLayout and get some space on the left side this way. Then, you can fill this space with your menu-ListView and overlay the other content with a FrameLayout, that, when it's clicked, collapses the menu. So, here's some code:

First, the class for collapsing / expanding (SlideMenu.java):

package your.cool.app;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.Window;
import android.view.animation.TranslateAnimation;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.FrameLayout;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class SlideMenu {
//just a simple adapter
public static class SlideMenuAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<SlideMenu.SlideMenuAdapter.MenuDesc> {
    Activity act;
    SlideMenu.SlideMenuAdapter.MenuDesc[] items;
    class MenuItem {
        public TextView label;
        public ImageView icon;
    }
    static class MenuDesc {
        public int icon;
        public String label;
    }
    public SlideMenuAdapter(Activity act, SlideMenu.SlideMenuAdapter.MenuDesc[] items) {
        super(act, R.id.menu_label, items);
        this.act = act;
        this.items = items;
        }
    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View rowView = convertView;
        if (rowView == null) {
            LayoutInflater inflater = act.getLayoutInflater();
            rowView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.menu_listitem, null);
            MenuItem viewHolder = new MenuItem();
            viewHolder.label = (TextView) rowView.findViewById(R.id.menu_label);
            viewHolder.icon = (ImageView) rowView.findViewById(R.id.menu_icon);
            rowView.setTag(viewHolder);
        }

        MenuItem holder = (MenuItem) rowView.getTag();
        String s = items[position].label;
        holder.label.setText(s);
        holder.icon.setImageResource(items[position].icon);

        return rowView;
    }
}

private static boolean menuShown = false;
private static View menu;
private static LinearLayout content;
private static FrameLayout parent;
private static int menuSize;
private static int statusHeight = 0;
private Activity act;
SlideMenu(Activity act) {
    this.act = act;
}
//call this in your onCreate() for screen rotation
public void checkEnabled() {
    if(menuShown)
        this.show(false);
}
public void show() {
//get the height of the status bar
    if(statusHeight == 0) {
        Rect rectgle = new Rect();
        Window window = act.getWindow();
        window.getDecorView().getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rectgle);
        statusHeight = rectgle.top;
        }
    this.show(true);
}
public void show(boolean animate) {
    menuSize = Functions.dpToPx(250, act);
    content = ((LinearLayout) act.findViewById(android.R.id.content).getParent());
    FrameLayout.LayoutParams parm = (FrameLayout.LayoutParams) content.getLayoutParams();
    parm.setMargins(menuSize, 0, -menuSize, 0);
    content.setLayoutParams(parm);
//animation for smooth slide-out
    TranslateAnimation ta = new TranslateAnimation(-menuSize, 0, 0, 0);
    ta.setDuration(500);
    if(animate)
        content.startAnimation(ta);
    parent = (FrameLayout) content.getParent();
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) act.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    menu = inflater.inflate(R.layout.menu, null);
    FrameLayout.LayoutParams lays = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(-1, -1, 3);
    lays.setMargins(0,statusHeight, 0, 0);
    menu.setLayoutParams(lays);
    parent.addView(menu);
    ListView list = (ListView) act.findViewById(R.id.menu_listview);
    list.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            //handle your menu-click
        }
    });
    if(animate)
        menu.startAnimation(ta);
    menu.findViewById(R.id.overlay).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            SlideMenu.this.hide();
        }
    });
    Functions.enableDisableViewGroup((LinearLayout) parent.findViewById(android.R.id.content).getParent(), false);
    ((ExtendedViewPager) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager)).setPagingEnabled(false);
    ((ExtendedPagerTabStrip) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager_tabs)).setNavEnabled(false);
    menuShown = true;
    this.fill();
}
public void fill() {
    ListView list = (ListView) act.findViewById(R.id.menu_listview);
    SlideMenuAdapter.MenuDesc[] items = new SlideMenuAdapter.MenuDesc[5];
    //fill the menu-items here
    SlideMenuAdapter adap = new SlideMenuAdapter(act, items);
    list.setAdapter(adap);
}
public void hide() {
    TranslateAnimation ta = new TranslateAnimation(0, -menuSize, 0, 0);
    ta.setDuration(500);
    menu.startAnimation(ta);
    parent.removeView(menu);

    TranslateAnimation tra = new TranslateAnimation(menuSize, 0, 0, 0);
    tra.setDuration(500);
    content.startAnimation(tra);
    FrameLayout.LayoutParams parm = (FrameLayout.LayoutParams) content.getLayoutParams();
    parm.setMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content.setLayoutParams(parm);
    Functions.enableDisableViewGroup((LinearLayout) parent.findViewById(android.R.id.content).getParent(), true);
    ((ExtendedViewPager) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager)).setPagingEnabled(true);
    ((ExtendedPagerTabStrip) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager_tabs)).setNavEnabled(true);
    menuShown = false;
}
}

Some helping methods (for me, in static Functions.java):

    public static int dpToPx(int dp, Context ctx) {
    Resources r = ctx.getResources();
    return (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, dp, r.getDisplayMetrics());
}
//originally: https://mcmap.net/q/88512/-disable-the-touch-events-for-all-the-views
//modified for the needs here
public static void enableDisableViewGroup(ViewGroup viewGroup, boolean enabled) {
    int childCount = viewGroup.getChildCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
        View view = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
        if(view.isFocusable())
            view.setEnabled(enabled);
        if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
            enableDisableViewGroup((ViewGroup) view, enabled);
            } else if (view instanceof ListView) {
                if(view.isFocusable())
                    view.setEnabled(enabled);
                ListView listView = (ListView) view;
                int listChildCount = listView.getChildCount();
                for (int j = 0; j < listChildCount; j++) {
                    if(view.isFocusable())
                        listView.getChildAt(j).setEnabled(false);
                    }
                }
        }
    }

Then, the layouts:

Layout of the menu (res/layout/menu.xml)

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
    <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_width="250dip"
        android:background="@color/darkblack">
        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/menu_listview"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:divider="@color/dividerblack"
            android:dividerHeight="2dip"  />
    </LinearLayout>
    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/overlay"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >
    </FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Layout of the listitems (res/layout/menu_listitem.xml):

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" >
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/menu_icon"
        android:layout_width="30dp"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="5dip"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
        android:layout_marginBottom="10dip" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/menu_label"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="@color/white"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
        android:layout_marginBottom="10dip" />
</LinearLayout>

How to use it:

In your onCreate():

private SlideMenu slidemenu;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    //your onCreate code
    slidemenu = new SlideMenu(this);
    slidemenu.checkEnabled();
}

In the handler for your ActionBar homebutton:

slidemenu.show();

That's it!

And now, a little screenshot of it in action:

SlideMenu

As far as I know, it is working. If you experience any problems or my explanations are not clear, please contact me!

EDIT: ExtendedViewPager & ExtendedPagerStrip:

ExtendedViewPager:

package your.cool.app;

//source: http://blog.svpino.com/2011/08/disabling-pagingswiping-on-android.html

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;

public class ExtendedViewPager extends ViewPager {

private boolean enabled;

public ExtendedViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    this.enabled = true;
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (this.enabled) {
        return super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }

    return false;
}

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (this.enabled) {
        return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event);
    }

    return false;
}

public void setPagingEnabled(boolean enabled) {
    this.enabled = enabled;
}
}

ExtendedPagerTabStrip:

package your.cool.app;

//source: http://blog.svpino.com/2011/08/disabling-pagingswiping-on-android.html

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.view.PagerTabStrip;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;

public class ExtendedPagerTabStrip extends PagerTabStrip {

private boolean enabled;

public ExtendedPagerTabStrip(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    this.enabled = true;
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (this.enabled) {
        return super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }

    return false;
}

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (this.enabled) {
        return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event);
    }

    return false;
}

public void setNavEnabled(boolean enabled) {
    this.enabled = enabled;
}
}

I use this SlideMenu for an Activity with a ViewPager with PagerTabStrip for tabs like Talk, Market etc. You can't disable these Views in an easy way, so the two classes above just extend them to stop the onTouch event when disabled.

Lenticularis answered 6/7, 2012 at 18:35 Comment(21)

Looks great, but where do ExtendedViewPager and ExtendedPagerTabStrip come from? – Funiculus 8/7, 2012 at 11:10

Cool, thanks for the extra files, I'll try to convert that to a lib and post on github. – Funiculus 8/7, 2012 at 14:8

I am guessing you must put a extendedViewPager and extendedPagerTabStrip in the XML for your activity, right? The example above looks for R.id.viewpager – Perilous 16/7, 2012 at 4:1

@Anabolism Has anyone tried this with ActionBarSherlock on a gingerbread device? I am getting some weird behavior.... – Perilous 16/7, 2012 at 12:58

@Patrick if you don't have a viewpager, just leave out these two lines. If you have misc with viewpager / no viewpager, put these lines in between a try / catch block. I don't know what ActionBarSherlock does, you need to take a look at hierachyviewer, because this is just a hack, and if ActionBarSherlock tries to hack the same way, there could be a mess. – Lenticularis 16/7, 2012 at 16:7

@Patrick: @Lenticularis is correct. Take a look with hierarchyviewer to see what ActionBarSherlock is really doing behind the scenes. Then you can manipulate the views accordingly. – Anabolism 16/7, 2012 at 16:29

So I'm looking to get the same setup using ActionbarSherlock, and looking at the hierarchy view isn't helping me. What should I be looking for? I'm not overly familiar with the tool, nor how the hierarchy view works :/ . I have the view, and it slides properly, it just takes up the whole screen rather than leaving a sliver with the app icon showing. – Humanist 17/7, 2012 at 0:24

Hi, we did a roundup of sciroccos original implementation and added XML parsing as well as autodetection of a possibly present actionbar. The whole thing is now a library project togther with an example app and is described over at coboltforge.com/2012/07/…. Thanks to @Lenticularis for the initial idea! – Funiculus 17/7, 2012 at 23:2

Should I post a separate question for how we should modify this code to have the slidemenu slide out from the right side? I would like one for each side of the app. – Moazami 25/7, 2012 at 1:33

I implemented the method and it works on android 4.1 , but in android 2.3 doesn't? is it build just for higher versions of android? – Lavallee 28/8, 2012 at 8:34

@Moazami : That would be great! If you could do that I'd favorite it when it gets answered! – Anabolism 30/8, 2012 at 5:14

@Lenticularis i am using your code for menu options, here i am facing problem, what is the Functions class. what code i have to add into that and also how to use the above code in the main activity. please help on this i did not figured out how to create... – Participate 18/9, 2012 at 7:0

@RajaReddyP The Functions class contains some helping methods of my app. You find the extract you need for the slidemenu to work above, it's the second code block – Lenticularis 18/9, 2012 at 12:47

@Patrick, for device with android < 4.0, just add parm.gravity = Gravity.Top before parm.setMargins(menuSize, 0, -menuSize, 0), and set the statusHeight to 0. – Sowder 2/10, 2012 at 9:17

Nice job! I would like to add sub menu items (for example check facebook app). So when selecting a menu item with a sub item, the menu needs to animate to the right. Any tips for implementing this? – Eldreda 10/10, 2012 at 14:39

@Lenticularis can you grant use of the above code under the MIT or BSD license? Thanks! – Acarus 18/10, 2012 at 23:14

@JamesBaca personally, I don't like the idea of my code being used in closed-source projects without mentioning me. This code is available under both this stackoverflow-CC-by-SA kind of thing and the GPL (github.com/LSGAdmins/lsgapp). I hope that's enough! – Lenticularis 22/10, 2012 at 9:45

Very nice code, I've been tinkering with it, and when you have the comment //fill the menu-items here in the fill() method in SlideMenu, I keep getting nullpointerexceptions. What would be the proper way to instantiate a menu item? – Stelly 9/1, 2013 at 4:7

@Lenticularis Hey ! i have question of what does this line meant for bcoz i didnt find any id in your code ((ExtendedViewPager) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager)).setPagingEnabled(false); ((ExtendedPagerTabStrip) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager_tabs)).setNavEnabled(false); – Womanish 28/3, 2014 at 9:32

I couldn't make it work. Do you have any suggestion? I appreciated all your work and it is very helpful for me. I'm just getting started with Android. My problem is I don't know how my Activity should be to make it work. – Total 23/5, 2014 at 3:6

Hi ! we have the same question as "raghav chopra" regarding these lines ((ExtendedViewPager) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager)).setPagingEnabled(false); ((ExtendedPagerTabStrip) act.findViewById(R.id.viewpager_tabs)).setNavEnabled(false); where is the layout regarding to them could help me with that. – Thetisa 31/8, 2015 at 10:48

There are several attempts at doing this, however I have yet to find a lib or source code on how to implement it successfully with actionbar accross all api levels. One promising lib is here

https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu

here is a video of the example app.

here is the Google Play app link.

This does work with ActionbarSherlock. You will have to build the SlidingMenu library with ABS to get it working. Works and looks great!

Perilous answered 17/7, 2012 at 2:23 Comment(2)

While the code above will generally work, I can say without a doubt that this library is a great drop-in solution to this problem. It's really started to grow on me as a ready-made solution for implementing a side-nav. – Anabolism 12/9, 2012 at 17:20

Agree that this library has been really helpful for us - super easy to use, provides many config options, works on many API levels, and plays nice with ActionBarSherlock! – Hupp 25/4, 2013 at 1:11

Did a roundup of the original implementation and added XML parsing as well as autodetection of a possibly present actionbar, so it works with the native as well as a support action bar such as ActionBarSherlock.

The whole thing is now a library project together with an example app and is described over at Sliding Menu for android Thanks to scirocco for the initial idea and code!

LibSlideMenu Screenshot

Funiculus answered 17/7, 2012 at 23:7 Comment(4)

I need to set slide menu as the first screen.that is when the user enter into the app he will see the slide menu first .is any solution for that ? – Mincemeat 4/9, 2012 at 15:56

setAsShown() added with github.com/bk138/LibSlideMenu/commit/… should do the trick. – Funiculus 4/9, 2012 at 19:42

@Luizje: I guess you would have to use a similar view like the SlideMenu, but smaller and use an animation on that. I'd be happy to merge in any patches you might have :-) – Funiculus 17/10, 2012 at 17:24

If you are using API level greater that 11 you can use a much simpler approach inspired by the answer given by @Scirocco

// get content parent that is basically the whole 
// app screen (viewed from hierarchy viewer)
final LinearLayout content = 
     (LinearLayout) findViewById(android.R.id.content).getParent();

// make new value animator with range from 0 to 1
final ValueAnimator animator = ValueAnimator.ofFloat(0, 1);
// set custom duration
animator.setDuration(500);
// on update is called for every value in the 
    // given range in time frame defined by the duration
animator.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {

    public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
        // get the current value
        float value = ((Float) (animation.getAnimatedValue())).floatValue();
        // translate by that value, minus means translate left
        content.setTranslationX(-250 * value);
    }
});
// start the animator
animator.start();

// make or inflate custom view for test purposes 
Button textView = new Button(this);
textView.setText("TestButton");
// add it to the frame layout that is the parent of the content on position 0
FrameLayout parent = (FrameLayout) content.getParent();
parent.addView(textView, 0);

The idea here is to use ValueAnimator that transforms and not just animates the main layout with the Action bar, so you can interact with the inflated view you want to use as a sliding panel. You should replace the hardcoded values with something that is of use to your app.

I hope this helps :)

Mcripley answered 10/8, 2012 at 12:50 Comment(0)

Well currently im working on a project and came across Sliding menu,i googled but gets very disappointed to see that no one has given some piece of code or some hint for how to start making a sliding menu,but every one has given link to some github's projects/libraries to use,I decided to do it myself and finally i have my own Sliding Menu Ready...

I have Spent two days on it

1. on making animations of sliding

2. on making it work with all screen resolutions

Its really easy and simple once you get some idea about Animations, i have read some where,its not sensible to re-invent the Wheel(people who are refering to github source code of sliding menu),but i beleif that you should atleast once try to make your own so you get a idea how it actually works and functions :P

so this is a picture of how my sliding menu will going to work

1.Find.xml //later in the code it will be refer as findLayout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


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

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

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/header" 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="60dp"
        android:padding="2dp"
        android:background="@drawable/main_header">

        <Button 
            android:id="@+id/filter"
            android:layout_width="40dp"
            android:layout_height="30dp"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:background="@drawable/filter_button" />

        <TextView 
            android:id="@+id/city"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/filter"
            android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="3dp"
            android:text="Islamabad"
            android:textSize="22sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_dark"/>

        <RelativeLayout 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@+id/city"
            android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/city">

            <TextView 
                android:id="@+id/interested_in"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:text="Men and Women"
                android:textSize="12sp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_dark"/>

            <ImageView 
                android:id="@+id/separator"
                android:layout_width="2dp"
                android:layout_height="18dp"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/interested_in"
                android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                android:src="@drawable/separator_1"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true" />

            <TextView 
                android:id="@+id/age"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/separator"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:text="18-24 years"
                android:textSize="12sp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_dark"/>

            <ImageView
                android:id="@+id/separator_1" 
                android:layout_width="2dp"
                android:layout_height="18dp"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/age"
                android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                android:src="@drawable/separator_1"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true" />

            <TextView 
                android:id="@+id/distance"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/separator_1"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:text=">30km"
                android:textSize="12sp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_dark" />


        </RelativeLayout>

    </RelativeLayout>

    <GridView 
        android:id="@+id/users_grid"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@+id/header"
        android:numColumns="4">

    </GridView>

    </RelativeLayout>

    <include 
        layout="@layout/filter"/> //here i included the filter.xml, which is on top of find.xml layout and is initially invisible    
</RelativeLayout>

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2.Filter.xml //later in code refer as FilterLayout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/filter_layout"
    android:visibility="invisible"
    android:layout_width="260dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/grey_bg" >

    <ImageView 
        android:id="@+id/profile_pic"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="220dp"
        android:src="@drawable/pic"/>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/header" 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="55dp"
        android:paddingLeft="10dp"
        android:paddingTop="5dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/profile_pic"
        android:background="@drawable/light_blue_header">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/name" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="3dp"
            android:text="Raja Babar"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_dark"/>

        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@+id/name"
            android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/name">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/gender"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:text="Male"
                android:textSize="12sp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_dark" />

            <ImageView 
                android:id="@+id/seperator"
                android:layout_width="2dp"
                android:layout_height="20dp"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/gender"
                android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
                android:src="@drawable/separator_1"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/age"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/seperator"
                android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:text="22 years"
                android:textSize="12sp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_dark" />

        </RelativeLayout>


    </RelativeLayout>

    <ScrollView 
        android:layout_width="250dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/header"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
            android:id="@+id/filter_options" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/filter_options"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_light"/>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/interested_in_layout" 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="15dp"
        android:paddingRight="40dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/filter_options"
        android:background="@drawable/interested_in_field">

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text="@string/gender"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_light"/>

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text="@string/women_men"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textColor="#33b9cd" />


    </RelativeLayout>
    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/age_layout" 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="15dp"
        android:paddingRight="40dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/interested_in_layout"
        android:background="@drawable/age_field_1">

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text="@string/age"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_light"/>

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text="18-24 years"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textColor="#33b9cd"/>


    </RelativeLayout>
    <RelativeLayout 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="15dp"
        android:paddingRight="40dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/age_layout"
        android:background="@drawable/distance_field">

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text="@string/distance"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_light"/>

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text=">30km"
            android:textSize="18sp"
            android:textColor="#33b9cd"/>


    </RelativeLayout>



    </RelativeLayout>

    </ScrollView>



</RelativeLayout>

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In find.xml i have included filter.xml initially which is invisible

Now FilterAnimation.java

package matchat.helpers;

import com.s3.matchat.R;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.animation.AlphaAnimation;
import android.view.animation.Animation;
import android.view.animation.Animation.AnimationListener;
import android.view.animation.AnimationUtils;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

public class FilterAnimation implements AnimationListener 
{
    Context context;

    RelativeLayout filterLayout, otherLayout;

    private Animation filterSlideIn, filterSlideOut, otherSlideIn, otherSlideOut;

    private static int otherLayoutWidth, otherLayoutHeight;

    private boolean isOtherSlideOut = false;

    private int deviceWidth;

    private int margin;

    public FilterAnimation(Context context) 
    {
        this.context = context;

        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();

        deviceWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels; // as my animation is x-axis related so i gets the device width and will use that width,so that this sliding menu will work fine in all screen resolutions
    }

    public void initializeFilterAnimations(RelativeLayout filterLayout)
    {
        this.filterLayout = filterLayout;

        filterSlideIn = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(context, R.anim.filter_slide_in);

        filterSlideOut = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(context, R.anim.filter_slide_out);    

    }

    public void initializeOtherAnimations(RelativeLayout otherLayout)
    {       
        this.otherLayout = otherLayout;

        otherLayoutWidth = otherLayout.getWidth();

        otherLayoutHeight = otherLayout.getHeight();


        otherSlideIn = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(context, R.anim.other_slide_in);
        otherSlideIn.setAnimationListener(this);

        otherSlideOut = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(context, R.anim.other_slide_out);
        otherSlideOut.setAnimationListener(this);
    }

    public void toggleSliding()
    {
        if(isOtherSlideOut) //check if findLayout is already slided out so get so animate it back to initial position
        {       
            filterLayout.startAnimation(filterSlideOut);

            filterLayout.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

            otherLayout.startAnimation(otherSlideIn);
        }
        else //slide findLayout Out and filterLayout In
        {
            otherLayout.startAnimation(otherSlideOut);

            filterLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

            filterLayout.startAnimation(filterSlideIn);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) 
    {
        if(isOtherSlideOut) //Now here we will actually move our view to the new position,because animations just move the pixels not the view
        {
            RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(otherLayoutWidth, otherLayoutHeight);

            otherLayout.setLayoutParams(params);

            isOtherSlideOut = false;
        }
        else
        {   
            margin = (deviceWidth * 80) / 100; //here im coverting device percentage width into pixels, in my other_slide_in.xml or other_slide_out.xml you can see that i have set the android:toXDelta="80%",so it means the layout will move to 80% of the device screen,to work across all screens i have converted percentage width into pixels and then used it



            RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(otherLayoutWidth, otherLayoutHeight);

            params.leftMargin = margin;

            params.rightMargin = -margin; //same margin from right side (negavite) so that our layout won't get shrink

            otherLayout.setLayoutParams(params);

            isOtherSlideOut = true;

            dimOtherLayout();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) 
    {

    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) 
    {

    }

    private void dimOtherLayout()
    {
        AlphaAnimation alphaAnimation = new AlphaAnimation(1.0f, 0.5f);

        alphaAnimation.setFillAfter(true);

        otherLayout.startAnimation(alphaAnimation);
    }

}

Now Find.java

package main.matchat.activities;

import matchat.helpers.FilterAnimation;
import com.s3.matchat.R;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewTreeObserver;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.view.ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

public class Find extends Activity implements OnClickListener
{
    RelativeLayout filterLayout, findLayout;

    Button btFilter;

    FilterAnimation filterAnimation;

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

        filterLayout = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.filter_layout);

        findLayout = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.find_layout);

        btFilter = (Button)findViewById(R.id.filter);
        btFilter.setOnClickListener(this);

        filterAnimation = new FilterAnimation(this);

        initializeAnimations(); 
    }

    private void initializeAnimations()
    {   //Setting GlobolLayoutListener,when layout is completely set this function will get called and we can have our layout onbject with correct width & height,else if you simply try to get width/height of your layout in onCreate it will return 0

        final ViewTreeObserver filterObserver = filterLayout.getViewTreeObserver();

        filterObserver.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() 
        {

            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() 
            {
                filterLayout.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);

                DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = getResources().getDisplayMetrics();

                int deviceWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels;

                int filterLayoutWidth = (deviceWidth * 80) / 100; //here im coverting device percentage width into pixels, in my other_slide_in.xml or other_slide_out.xml you can see that i have set the android:toXDelta="80%",so it means the layout will move to 80% of the device screen,to work across all screens i have converted percentage width into pixels and then used it

                RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(filterLayoutWidth, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);

                filterLayout.setLayoutParams(params);//here im setting the layout params for my filter.xml because its has width 260 dp,so work it across all screen i first make layout adjustments so that it work across all screens resolution 

                filterAnimation.initializeFilterAnimations(filterLayout);

            }
        });

        final ViewTreeObserver findObserver = findLayout.getViewTreeObserver();

        findObserver.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() 
        {

            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() 
            {
                findLayout.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);

                filterAnimation.initializeOtherAnimations(findLayout);
            }
        });

    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) 
    {
        int id = v.getId();

        switch(id)
        {

        case R.id.filter:

            filterAnimation.toggleSliding();

            break;
        }
    } 

}

Here are the animations res/anim

1.filter_slide_in.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:interpolator="@android:anim/decelerate_interpolator">

    <translate 
        android:fromXDelta="-100%"
        android:toXDelta="0%"
        android:duration="1000"
        android:fillEnabled="true" />

</set>

2.filter_slide_out.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:interpolator="@android:anim/decelerate_interpolator">

    <translate 
        android:fromXDelta="0%"
        android:toXDelta="-100%"
        android:duration="1000"/>

</set>

3.other_slide_in.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:interpolator="@android:anim/decelerate_interpolator" >

    <translate 
        android:fromXDelta="0%"
        android:toXDelta="-80%"
        android:duration="1000"
        android:fillEnabled="true"/>

</set>

4.other_slide_out.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:interpolator="@android:anim/decelerate_interpolator">

    <translate 
        android:fromXDelta="0%"
        android:toXDelta="80%"
        android:duration="1000"
        android:fillEnabled="true"/>

</set>

There you go a complete working and functional Sliding Menu, and you can customized it to meet your requirements,if any one still have some problems setting up,feel free to ask,i feel pleasure to help you out :)

Latoyialatreece answered 8/4, 2013 at 13:28 Comment(3)

While I am not a fan of reinventing the wheel, I appreciate the well-thought-out and complete answer that you provided here. – Anabolism 8/4, 2013 at 16:23

@Anabolism that was a joke...what i meant to say is that every one should adopt the behaviour of learn & implement :) – Latoyialatreece 9/4, 2013 at 3:48

@Anabolism +1 for such a nice post on reinventing the wheel – Latoyialatreece 9/4, 2013 at 4:33

I've created my own solution for sliding away the view and revealing a menu underneath, as many other solutions appeared to not work on older Android versions or lacked proper instructions on how to get it to work.

My solution has the following features:

Provides support for sliding away a view to reveal a menu that lies underneath it
Both the menu and the view above can be any custom View
Supported on old Android versions (tested to work at least on Android 2.2)
Works with PhoneGap / Cordova projects

The solution uses a custom layout, called SlidingMenuLayout, that you are expected to add 2 views to. The first view you add is the menu, the second is the main view.

The simplest way to add the layout to your existing project is to override your Activity's setContentView() method:

@Override
public void setContentView(View view) {
    SlidingMenuLayout layout = new SlidingMenuLayout(this);
    layout.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 
        0.0F));
    layout.addView(new MenuView(this));
    layout.addView(view);
    super.setContentView(layout);
}

In this example, MenuView is the view that will actually show the menu. It is up to you to implement this view.
Finally, you can add a button (typically in the top left corner of your main view), that calls openMenu() or closeMenu() on the layout as appropriate.
The code for SlidingMenuLayout is found on the GitHub project page.

Deledda answered 27/9, 2012 at 9:14 Comment(2)

Hi, I liked your solution, I am working on 2.2 phone, it slides the "main" layout but it do show the "menu" layout as well even when i close the "menu". Any reason why? – Melioration 2/10, 2012 at 16:20

I had the same issue, just make sure that the "main" layout has a background color and it will work fine. – Foliage 30/12, 2012 at 19:51

For those of you who uses the SlidingMenu library (https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu) there is a way to jack it in and it seems to work! With help of @Scirocco put this in your onCreate for the activity:

ViewGroup decorView = (ViewGroup) getWindow().getDecorView();
mSlidingMenu = new SlidingMenu(this);
ViewGroup mainContent = (ViewGroup) decorView.getChildAt(0);
decorView.removeView(mainContent);
mSlidingMenu.setContent(mainContent);
decorView.addView(mSlidingMenu);
mMenu = (LinearLayout) View.inflate(this, R.layout.menuview, null);
mSlidingMenu.setMenu(mMenu);
mSlidingMenu.setTouchModeAbove(SlidingMenu.TOUCHMODE_MARGIN);
mSlidingMenu.setBehindOffsetRes(R.dimen.slidingmenu_offset);

basically what it does is replacing the linearlayout in decor view with the slidingmenu instead.

Notice: Ive only tested it lightly but it seems to work.

Broadax answered 6/3, 2013 at 8:18 Comment(0)

    public class ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout extends SlidingPaneLayout {
    Context context;
    FrameLayout left;
    FrameLayout right;
    Boolean canOpen = true;
    public ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
        this.context = context;
        this.left = new FrameLayout(context);
        this.right = new FrameLayout(context);
        this.addView(left);
        this.addView(right);
    }
    public ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        this.context = context;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        if (canOpen)
            return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev);
        else
            return false;
    }

    public ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout canOpen(Boolean canOpen) {
        this.canOpen = canOpen;
        return this;
    }

    public ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout makeActionBarSlide(Window window){
        ViewGroup decorView = (ViewGroup) window.getDecorView();
        ViewGroup mainContent = (ViewGroup) decorView.getChildAt(0);
        decorView.removeView(mainContent);
        setContentView(mainContent);
        decorView.addView(this);
        return this;
    }

    public ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout setMenuView(View view){
        if((left.getChildCount()== 1)){
            left.removeView(left.getChildAt(0));
        }
        left.addView(view);
        return this;
    }

    public ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout setContentView(View view){
        if((right.getChildCount()== 1)){
            right.removeView(right.getChildAt(0));
        }
        right.addView(view);
        return this;
    }

    public ImprovedSlidingPaneLayout setMenuWidth(int width){
        left.setLayoutParams(new SlidingPaneLayout.LayoutParams(width, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
        return this;
    }

}

this is my class extends SlidingPaneLayout. Can slide with actio

Garmaise answered 17/12, 2013 at 9:0 Comment(1)

I've tried replacing the <android.support.v4.widget.SlidingPaneLayout> tag in layout xml with your class, but nothing is changed. Still sliding without the actionbar. Did you do any other thing and didn't mention here? Thanks! – Translucid 5/2, 2014 at 10:41

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