Android Navigation Drawer Question

[ShatterStar]

Hi,

I have began creating an android app with the "Blank Activity" template, I have created 3 different activities with 3 different views essentially. Reading up on the navigation drawer in order to have it you need to have two views within a drawer layout root element. My question is if I want to have the navigation drawer appear throughout my application do I need to have all my views within a drawer root element?

 

[Deleted User]

Is there some reason you didn't use the "Navigation Drawer" project template rather than "Blank Activity" template? The former gives you the basic code and layout resources needed to use a navigation drawer, and extend it.

 

[ShatterStar]

Is there some reason you didn't use the "Navigation Drawer" project template rather than "Blank Activity" template? The former gives you the basic code and layout resources needed to use a navigation drawer, and extend it.

Yes there is I am learning android programming from scratch so I started with a blank activity template. Now that the app is expanding I need to add new functionality like a navigation drawer on every activity.

I could copy the code from across all the activities but this seems like overkill and it would be expensive on the system, is there an easier way?

 

[Deleted User]

You might want to consider using Fragments for this instead of separate Activities. As suggested in this SO question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19451715/same-navigation-drawer-in-different-activities