Material Design Navigation Drawer

A small Java Android sample showing how to build a Material Design navigation drawer with DrawerLayout, NavigationView, AppCompat, and the Android Design Support Library.

The app demonstrates the classic pre-AndroidX navigation drawer pattern: a toolbar with a drawer affordance, a branded drawer header, grouped menu items, checked navigation state, delayed content changes while the drawer closes, and secondary Account, Help, and About screens.

✨ What It Demonstrates

• DrawerLayout as the root layout for content plus drawer.
• NavigationView with a header layout and menu resource.
• AppCompat Toolbar configured as the activity action bar.
• Home/up affordance opening the drawer from the toolbar.
• Checked single-selection drawer items for primary destinations.
• Non-checkable drawer actions for Help and About.
• Fragment replacement after a short delay to avoid jank while closing the drawer.
• State restoration for the toolbar title after configuration changes.
• Alternative branches comparing Design Support Library and manual implementations.

🌿 Branches

Branch	Approach
using_design_support_library	Default branch using NavigationView from the Design Support Library.
not_using_design_support_library	Older/manual drawer implementation without NavigationView.

⚙️ Tech Stack

• Java
• Android Gradle Plugin 3.0.0 alpha03
• Gradle 4.0 milestone 2
• compile SDK 25, target SDK 25, min SDK 16
• Android Support Library 25.3.1
• AppCompat, Design Support Library, Percent Support Library
• XML layouts and vector drawables

🚀 Run It

This repo is pinned to 2017 Android tooling. For the least friction, use an Android Studio/JDK setup compatible with AGP 3.0 alpha and Gradle 4 milestone builds.

./gradlew :app:assembleDebug
./gradlew :app:installDebug

🧪 Verification

No automated test suite is included in this historical sample. The practical sanity check is to build the debug app:

./gradlew :app:assembleDebug

📌 Status

This is a historical sample, not a modern AndroidX/Material Components app. Its value today is as a compact reference for how the Design Support Library era implemented Material navigation drawers.

📜 License

The original README declared this repository to be MIT licensed. A standalone LICENSE file is not currently present in the repository.