You should use: mDrawerLayout.setDrawerLockMode(DrawerLayout.LOCK_MODE_LOCKED_CLOSED); It worked for me, the swipe to open the drawer was disabled. If it still won’t work, check out the answer provided here.
I have a tiny “trick” learnt from https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu to implement the effect you required. You only need to remove the first child of the window’s decor view, and add the first child to your drawer’s content view. After that, you only need to add your drawer to the window’s decor view. Below is some detailed … Read more
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 … Read more