B4A Library AHNavigationDrawer - Native Google Navigation Drawer

corwin42 · Aug 1, 2013

This is a wrapper library for the native NavigationDrawer introduced by Google at Google I/O 2013.

It contains two objects:

AHNavigationDrawer - This implements the Navigation Drawer
SlideDrawable - This is a special type of drawable used to create an indicator for the NavigationDrawer
MaterialMenuDrawable - This is a drawable which can be used to create the Material Design burger->arrow->cross->check animation.

This Library uses the android-support-v4.jar library which is part of the Android SDK. You have to install it with the Android SDK Manager. In the SDK Manager please add/download the "Extras/Android Support" package. Then you will need to copy the android-support-v4.jar file from <SDK root folder>\extras\android\support\v4 to your B4A custom libs folder!
You need at least the API17 version of the library!

The MaterialMenuDrawable uses the NineOldAndroid animation library. Download the nineoldandroids-2.4.0.jar from here and place it in your custom libs folder (you don't need an xml file for it)

The example uses the mListView library by icefairy333 and the reflection library by agraham.

Changelog:
V1.0:
- Initial version

V1.1:
WARNING: Signature of the event subs have changed!
- Added support for secondary drawer
- Ability to change drawer edge touch sensitivity size

V1.20:
- Fixed the "glitch" while opening the drawer (Sometimes the drawer got "stuck" while swiping open)

V1.21:
- Fixed bug when using NavDrawer.ContentPanel.LoadLayout()

V1.30:
- Some internal changes which should make it compatible with ULV (Ultimate ListView)
- New MaterialMenuDrawable object for Material Design Burger/Arrow/Cross/Check animation
Attention: The MaterialMenuDrawable needs the NineOldAndroids library. See above.

V1.40:
- changed typo for nineoldandroids jar file (Name change: nineoldandroid-2.4.0.jar to nineoldandroids-2.4.0.jar). If you update from older version just change nineoldandroid-2.4.0.jar in your CustomLibs folder to nineoldandroids-2.4.0.jar

Inman · Mar 25, 2015

corwin42 said:
AHNavigationDrawer just wraps the standard Google implementation. I will have a look at the example.

PMed you an example

Inman · Mar 31, 2015

The new version fixed the issue and works great. New arrow animation works well too. Couple of issues though.

1. The nineolds library file that is downloaded is nineoldandroids-2.4.0.jar but your library is expecting nineoldandroid-2.4.0.jar (without s before -). No issues, just need to rename the jar file or correct the XML file.

2. When a drawer slide is in progress, navdrawer_DrawerSlide (Position As Float, DrawerGravity As Int) has the values that are required to animate the arrow properly. But the DrawerGravity returned has a value of 8388611 for the drawer on the left while NavDrawer.GRAVITY_LEFT has a value of 3 which is same as Gravity.Left. Again, no big deal. Just need to make sure what value you are checking against, to identify the correct drawer (when there are multiple drawers).

imgsimonebiliato · Apr 1, 2015

Hello,
during compile I've got this error "A referenced library is missing: nineoldandroid-2.4.0".
I read what you wrote about this library and I've done everything.

What's the matter?

RandomCoder · Apr 1, 2015

See the previous post. The name nineoldandroids-2.4.0.jar needs the s removing from the name.

imgsimonebiliato · Apr 1, 2015

Thanks.
Please, I can't understand what this function do:

B4X:

Sub GetNPDrawable(Name As String) As Object
Dim r As Reflector
Dim package As String
Dim id As Int
package = r.GetStaticField("anywheresoftware.b4a.BA", "packageName")
id = r.GetStaticField(package & ".R$drawable", Name)
r.Target = r.GetContext
r.Target = r.RunMethod("getResources")
Return r.RunMethod2("getDrawable", id, "java.lang.int")
End Sub

corwin42 · Apr 1, 2015

imgsimonebiliato said:
Thanks.
Please, I can't understand what this function do:

It loads a NinePatchDrawable from the resources folders

imgsimonebiliato · Apr 1, 2015

corwin42 said:
It loads a NinePatchDrawable from the resources folders

And refering to this example library?

corwin42 · Apr 1, 2015

imgsimonebiliato said:
And refering to this example library?

It is for loading the shadow image for the drawer.

imgsimonebiliato · Apr 1, 2015

Hello,
could you please help me with this log error?

B4X:

** Activity (main) Create, isFirst = true **


java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroid/support/v4/widget/DrawerLayout$LayoutParams;
    at de.amberhome.navdrawer.NavigationDrawer.Initialize2(NavigationDrawer.java:82)
    at de.amberhome.navdrawer.NavigationDrawer.Initialize(NavigationDrawer.java:67)
    at de.amberhome.NavDrawer.main._activity_create(main.java:292)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:174)
    at de.amberhome.NavDrawer.main.afterFirstLayout(main.java:98)
    at de.amberhome.NavDrawer.main.access$100(main.java:16)
    at de.amberhome.NavDrawer.main$WaitForLayout.run(main.java:76)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5834)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1388)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1183)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout$LayoutParams" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/de.amberhome.NavDrawer-1/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
    at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:469)
    ... 17 more
    Suppressed: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout$LayoutParams
        at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method)
        at java.lang.BootClassLoader.findClass(ClassLoader.java:781)
        at java.lang.BootClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:841)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:504)
        ... 18 more
    Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Class not found using the boot class loader; no stack available

RandomCoder · Apr 1, 2015

Have you followed this advice from post 1...

This Library uses the android-support-v4.jar library which is part of the Android SDK. You have to install it with the Android SDK Manager. In the SDK Manager please add/download the "Extras/Android Support" package. Then you will need to copy the android-support-v4.jar file from <SDK root folder>\extras\android\support\v4 to your B4A custom libs folder!

imgsimonebiliato · Apr 2, 2015

corwin42 · Apr 2, 2015

Seems that your android-support-v4.jar is very outdated. Update to the current version.

imgsimonebiliato · Apr 3, 2015

corwin42 said:
Seems that your android-support-v4.jar is very outdated. Update to the current version.

I updated and now it's ok.. Thanks

Dave61 · Jul 31, 2015

Probably doing something stupid but here goes!

I implemented this Navigation Drawer in a project and it works fine. But feedback from users is that they want it to look more modern - i.e. material design.
This project uses Samsung tablets that we supply so they are all Lollipop minimum.
So, I tried changing the Manifest Editor my modifying these 2 lines:

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="11" android:targetSdkVersion="21"/>
SetApplicationAttribute(android:theme, "@style/MyAppTheme")

as mentioned in the 'Material Design 1 - Basics' tutorial (which I have working fine). I also added the resources of course & made them read-only.
However, in the resulting app, the drawer sits underneath the action bar instead of being integrated in it...screen dump attached.

Is there more I need to do to get this looking right? I was reading through the 2nd Material Design tutorial but, as I am only developing for Android 5, I am guessing (possibly incorrectly) that I don't need to worry about AppCompat and all the other steps involved in that tutorial to get controls looking correct for material design.

corwin42 · Aug 6, 2015

No, this is not possible with a normal ActionBar. You have to use a ToolBar as your ActionBar.

See this stackoverflow post for a full explanation.

imgsimonebiliato · Sep 12, 2015

Hello,
does it works on Android 5.1?
Because I click on the ActionBar button, but the drawer don't appear

corwin42 · Sep 14, 2015

imgsimonebiliato said:
Hello,
does it works on Android 5.1?
Because I click on the ActionBar button, but the drawer don't appear

yes but there was a problem with old B4A versions. Be sure to use B4A 4.00 or above and use the Activity_ActionBarHomeClick event.

corwin42 · Sep 14, 2015

New version 1.40 added to the first post which just corrects the typo with the nineoldanroids-2.4.0.jar

Deleted member 30048 · Oct 13, 2015

hello, I get error if I use this library in conjunction with AdMob. The error that shows is the one shown in the picture.

I once had the same problem but I used a unknow version of android-support-v4 and worked well, but I no longer have that version.

How I can use this library and admob together?

Thanks!

corwin42 · Oct 14, 2015

cbc551 said:
hello, I get error if I use this library in conjunction with AdMob. The error that shows is the one shown in the picture.

I once had the same problem but I used a unknow version of android-support-v4 and worked well, but I no longer have that version.

How I can use this library and admob together?

This is not related to this library.

See here.

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