Add item at bottom of navigation drawer

Question

I'm a newbie on android studio and I've been trying to learn how to use the navigation drawer layout. I'm using the standard template for Nav Drawer, and wanted to add an item at the bottom of the menu, like this:

at first i thought that the items in the drawer were inside a LinearLayout and it would be fairly easy to do what i want, but the xml code looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 

<group android:checkableBehavior="single">     <item         android:id="@+id/nav_camera"         android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_camera"         android:title="OP1" />     <item         android:id="@+id/nav_gallery"         android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_gallery"         android:title="OP2" />     <item         android:id="@+id/nav_slideshow"         android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_slideshow"         android:title="OP3" />     <item         android:id="@+id/nav_manage"         android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_manage"         android:title="OP4" /> </group>   <group android:checkableBehavior="single">     <item         android:id="@+id/nav_logout"         android:title="Log out" /> </group> 

is there a way to make the group containing the logout item to be at the bottom? Thanks in advance for your answers!

Answer 1

Try this

Remove this part

<group android:checkableBehavior="single">     <item         android:id="@+id/nav_logout"         android:title="Log out" /> </group> 

then go to your layout where the navigation view is located.

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView     android:id="@+id/navigationView"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:layout_gravity="start"     android:fitsSystemWindows="true"     app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_account_navigation"     app:menu="@menu/menu_lender_nav">      <LinearLayout         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_gravity="bottom"         android:orientation="vertical"         android:padding="16dp">          <TextView             android:id="@+id/logout"             android:layout_width="match_parent"             android:layout_height="wrap_content"             android:gravity="center"             android:text="Log out" />     </LinearLayout>  </android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>