Android Navigation via NavigationView

Learn how to use the Material Design Support Library's NavigationView to navigate between multiple fragments.

Copy repo

Create new empty repo on GitHub

Run the following commands to base the new repo on the existing android-navigationview-material-design repo.

cd ~/repos/android

git clone git@github.com:exponential-io/android-navigationview-material-design.git android-navigation-material-design

cd android-navigation-material-design

# Change the git@github URL below to match your repo
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:exponential-io/android-navigation-material-design.git

git push origin master

# View remote urls
git remote -v

Rename project in Android Studio

• Open the new project in Android Studio.
• Right-click on app in the Project pane, click Open Module Settings.
• In the Project Structure dialog box, click the Flavors tab.
  • Change the Application Id to mdnavigation.
  • Click OK.
• Open build.gradle:
  • Notice how applicationId has been changed to mdnavigation.
• Open the AndroidManifest.xml:
  • Change the package to mdnavigation.
• Refactor the io.exponential.mdnavigationview package to io.exponential.mdnavigation.
• Open `MainActivity.java:
  • Change the package to package io.exponential.mdnavigation;.
• Open `MainFragment.java:
  • Change the package to package io.exponential.mdnavigation;.
• Open strings.xml:
  • Change app_name to Material Design Navigation.
• Select Build, click Clean.
• Select Build, click Rebuild Project.
• Commit your changes to git.
• Select File, click Invalidate Caches / Restart....

Follow commit log

You can now start to follow the steps to implement navigation via the NavigationDrawer through the git commit log. Begin with the commits that are prefixed with nav:.