How to create a custom navigation drawer in android

The tutorial Android Custom Navigation Drawer (via archive.org) contains a basic and a custom project. The latter shows how to setup a Navigation Drawer as shown in the screenshot:

NavigationDrawerCustom

The source code of the projects (via archive.org) is available for download.


The is also the Navigation Drawer – Live-O project …

Navigation Drawer - Live-O

The source code of the project is available on GitHub.


The MaterialDrawer library aims to provide the easiest possible implementation of a navigation drawer for your application. It provides a great amount of out of the box customizations and also includes an easy to use header which can be used as AccountSwitcher.

MaterialDrawer library demo


Please note that Android Studio meanwhile has a template project to create a Navigation Drawer Activity as shown in the screenshot.

Navigation Drawer Activity

This repository keeps track of changes being made to the template.

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