Animation stutter in Navigation Drawer

[jodiwaljay]

Actual Behaviour

While closing the drawer, it experiences a stutter in the animation. You may have felt it while opening schedule or tracks activity.

Expected Behaviour

The animation should be smooth

Steps to reproduce it

Try to open an activity from navigation drawer which is expensive in number of operations like "Tracks" or "Schedule". You will feel abruptness in animation of Navigation Drawer

I am adding an excerpt from https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/DrawerLayout.html to show that it is a very common issue. I myself came across this a while ago in another project. It is 4th paragraph from the top in the link.

DrawerLayout.DrawerListener can be used to monitor the state and motion of drawer views. Avoid performing expensive operations such as layout during animation as it can cause stuttering; try to perform expensive operations during the STATE_IDLE state. DrawerLayout.SimpleDrawerListener offers default/no-op implementations of each callback method.

Would you like to work on the issue?

There are different approaches to this problem. I have used one of them. I'll try to choose the best one and would like to work on it. Does this issue makes sense @the-dagger ?

P.S. more info about the issue here. http://stackoverflow.com/q/18343018/7622397

[the-dagger]

Yes, this issue does make sense.

Also there are quite a few lags here and there.
If you enable profile rendering, most of the operations miss the 16ms time limit.