Same Navigation Drawer in Different Activities

Same Navigation Drawer in different Activities

If you want a navigation drawer, you should use fragments.
I followed this tutorial last week and it works great:

http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/nav-drawer.html

You can also download sample code from this tutorial, to see how you can do this.

Without fragments:

This is your BaseActivity Code:

public class BaseActivity extends Activity
{
    public DrawerLayout drawerLayout;
    public ListView drawerList;
    public String[] layers;
    private ActionBarDrawerToggle drawerToggle;
    private Map map;

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        // R.id.drawer_layout should be in every activity with exactly the same id.
        drawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);

        drawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle((Activity) this, drawerLayout, R.drawable.ic_drawer, 0, 0) 
        {
            public void onDrawerClosed(View view) 
            {
                getActionBar().setTitle(R.string.app_name);
            }

            public void onDrawerOpened(View drawerView) 
            {
                getActionBar().setTitle(R.string.menu);
            }
        };
        drawerLayout.setDrawerListener(drawerToggle);

        getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
        getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

        layers = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.layers_array);
        drawerList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.left_drawer);
        View header = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.drawer_list_header, null);
        drawerList.addHeaderView(header, null, false);
        drawerList.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.drawer_list_item, android.R.id.text1,
                layers));
        View footerView = ((LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)).inflate(
                R.layout.drawer_list_footer, null, false);
        drawerList.addFooterView(footerView);

        drawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int pos, long arg3) {
                map.drawerClickEvent(pos);
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

        if (drawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item)) {
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onPostCreate(savedInstanceState);
        drawerToggle.syncState();
    }

    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
        drawerToggle.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    }
}

All the other Activities that needs to have a navigation drawer should extend this Activity instead of Activity itself, example:

public class AnyActivity extends BaseActivity
{
    //Because this activity extends BaseActivity it automatically has the navigation drawer
    //You can just write your normal Activity code and you don't need to add anything for the navigation drawer
}

XML

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <!-- The main content view -->
    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/content_frame"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >
        <!-- Put what you want as your normal screen in here, you can also choose for a linear layout or any other layout, whatever you prefer -->
    </FrameLayout>
    <!-- The navigation drawer -->
    <ListView android:id="@+id/left_drawer"
        android:layout_width="240dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
        android:divider="@android:color/transparent"
        android:dividerHeight="0dp"
        android:background="#111"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Edit:

I experienced some difficulties myself, so here is a solution if you get NullPointerExceptions. In BaseActivity change the onCreate function to protected void onCreateDrawer(). The rest can stay the same. In the Activities which extend BaseActivity put the code in this order:

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity);
    super.onCreateDrawer();

This helped me fix my problem, hope it helps!

This is how you can create a navigation drawer with multiple activities, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Edit 2:

As said by @GregDan your BaseActivity can also override setContentView() and call onCreateDrawer there:

@Override 
public void setContentView(@LayoutRes int layoutResID) 
{ 
    super.setContentView(layoutResID); 
    onCreateDrawer() ;
}

Navigation drawer in multiple activities

Downvoters - here the solution is..

Create an xml file which will have DrawerLayout and NavigationView (one can use the xml given in Question, without the main content) - navigation.xml

As suggested in many answers "create a BaseActivity which extends AppCompatActivity. And inflate navigation.xml.

public class BaseActivity extends AppCompatActivity {  

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {  

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        View view = View.inflate(this, R.layout.navigation, null);

        // view declarations
        DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) view.findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
        ...... }}

In whichever Activity you wanna use this NavigationMenu, extend BaseActivity for that class.
```
GraphActivity extends BaseActivity { .... }
```
In GraphActivity.xml add the NavigationMenu code. You can't just include the navigation.xml it will disable the current xml widgets.
Done!

Same default Navigation Drawer on different Activities in Android Studio 3.2 without FrameLayout Tag in XML

The recommended way is to use fragments for every item view in navigation bar, but if you really need to use activity then you should make a navigation bar for every activity or make a view of navigation bar and include it in your activity and set the selected item based on the intent you receive.
Hope that helps.

Android: NavigationDrawer/multiple activities/same menu

From what I understand, you want the navigation drawer to be present in every activity. There are two methods:

Use @Russell's answer. Make a main activity having a framelayout usually called content_frame which covers the whole activity. This activity has the code for the navigation drawer. On button click you can replace the contents of this layout with the layout of the desired fragment (i.e. either fragment with several buttons or say an image). So the elements in the drawer are all fragments. In the tutorials the fragments are called through getFragmentManager(). Check out the video series on navigation drawer by this guys, slidenerd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hSIP2ha-g . Try to implement it as you are going along the video
I personally prefer this method but it has its limitations. Create a baseactivity in which the code for the navigation drawer is. This has a framelayout usually called content_frame which covers the whole activity. The activities that need to have the drawer extend this baseactivity instead of appcompatactivity or activity. The layout inflation works like this in the oncreate: getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.activity_this, contentFrameLayout); instead of setContentView. Here the activities are started through startActivity.

Cons of 2nd method:

a) The BaseActivity is destroyed and recreated every time the user changes activity.

b) The activity can extend only one class which by default become baseActivity

Pros of 2nd method:

a) You can maintain an activity stack

b) Each activity can have it's own configuration change rules and onsaveInstance rules.

c) These activities can have separate fragments, which use this activity for communication. Trying to do this in the first method would involve main activity implementing huge number of interfaces unnecessarily (you will learn about interfaces in inter-fragment communication)