Android Navigation Drawer for Sliding Menu / Sidebar

In this tutorial we will be covering how to create Navigation Drawer in Android Application. The Android Navigation Drawer is a sliding panel mostly found on the left edge of the Main Screen where you have your app’s main navigation menu or options. To reveal it user swipes a finger from the left edge of the screen or, while at the top level of the App, the user touches the App icon in the action bar. It is known by different names such as Android navigation drawer, Android sliding menu, Android swipe menu among others.

You can see almost every popular application using navigation drawer menu in their implementation. Consider the navigation drawers as seen in Google Maps and Screen Recorder App as an example.

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