Navigation Drawer and Drawer Layout in Kotlin — Beginner — In-Depth Guide

The navigation drawer is a UI panel that displays your app’s main navigation menu, and it is the most frequent functionality supplied by Android. It is also a crucial UI feature that delivers activities that users prefer, such as changing user profiles, altering application settings, etc. In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to construct the navigation drawer in Android.

The navigation drawer appears when the user swipes a finger from the activity’s left edge. They can also find it by touching the app symbol in the action bar from the home activity.

let’s Start :)

Step by Step Implementation

Step 1 — Creating a menu in the menu folder

Create the menu folder under the res folder. To implement the menu.

Step 2— Creating a Layout for our nav Header (Optional)

I want to add the header to my navigation drawer like :

Step 3 — Working with the activity_main.xml file

To set up the fundamental things needed for the Navigation Drawer, change parent from ConstraintLayout-> DrawerLayout . Run the following code in activity_main.xml.

Step 4— Working with the MainActivity.tk file

To show the menu icon on the action bar and implement the open-close functionality of the navigation drawer, run the following code in the MainActivity.kt file.

it’s Done :)

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Also, you can check my video about this tutorial on YouTube :

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