Bottom layout on a navigation drawer Android

Question

Trying to add a footer to a navigation drawer that consists of two lists. I am not doing this right, I understood that anything that i want in the navigation drawer should be encapsulated in the

<LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/left_drawer_layout"

I would like to add a bottom layout that does not depend on ListView scroll. I tried different versions of where to add the bottom layout code but nothing happens. I need an extra eye, please. Thank you.

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@android:color/white">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <include
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            layout="@layout/toolbar”/>



        <!-- Framelayout to display Fragments -->

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@+id/frame_container"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="1" />

    </LinearLayout>


    <!-- Listview to display slider menu -->

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/left_drawer_layout"
        android:layout_width="@dimen/navigation_drawer_max_width"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:orientation="vertical">


        <FrameLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="48dp"
            android:background="@color/list_background">

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/refreshBtn"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="48dp"
                android:text="@string/refresh"
                android:visibility="gone" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/searchMenuTxt"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="48dp"
                android:background="@color/list_background_pressed"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/search_web"
                android:drawablePadding="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
                android:drawableStart="@drawable/search_web"
                android:focusable="false"
                android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
                android:hint="@string/search"
                android:paddingLeft="8dp"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:textColorHint="@android:color/darker_gray"
                android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14"></EditText>

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/clearBtn"
                android:layout_width="24dp"
                android:layout_height="24dp"
                android:layout_gravity="right|center"
                android:background="@drawable/mob_clear"
                android:paddingRight="8dp"
                android:visibility="invisible" />

        </FrameLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/left_drawer"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <ListView
                android:id="@+id/activeChatsList"
                android:layout_width="@dimen/navigation_drawer_max_width"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="start"
                android:background="@color/list_background_pressed"
                android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
                android:divider="@drawable/list_divider"
                android:dividerHeight="1dp"
                android:fadeScrollbars="false"
                android:fastScrollEnabled="false" />

            <ListView
                android:id="@+id/drawerListView"
                android:layout_width="@dimen/navigation_drawer_max_width"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_gravity="start"
                android:background="@drawable/list_selector"
                android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
                android:divider="@drawable/list_divider"
                android:dividerHeight="1dp"
                android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
                android:fastScrollEnabled="false"
                android:minHeight="250dp" />
            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">

                <Button android:id="@+id/CancelButton" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text=“Profile" />
                >

            </LinearLayout>
        </LinearLayout>


    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Answer 1

You can have the basic idea from this code snippet. And android now has the built-in functionality for menu drawer. What you are trying to do is old approach. Actionbar sherlock is deprecated. So i would recommend you to move to AppCompat. With Appcompat following is the code for having the layout of menu drawer along with the footer.

drawer_fragment.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.focial"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@android:color/transparent" >

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@android:color/white" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/footer"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:background="@android:color/black"
        android:orientation="vertical">

     <!-- any addition stuff you want in yoour footer layout -->

   </LinearLayout>

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/drawer_list"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_above="@id/footer"
        android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
        android:dividerHeight="1dp" />
</RelativeLayout>

activity_home.xml (where you want to enable/show drawer)

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@android:color/white" >

<FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/realcontent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<fragment
    android:id="@+id/navigation_drawer"
    android:name="com.focial.fragment.NavigationDrawerFragment"
    android:layout_width="@dimen/navigation_drawer_width"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start" />

HomeActivity.java

private NavigationDrawerFragment mNavigationDrawerFragment;
private ArrayList<DrawerItem> drawerItems;
private DrawerLayout drawerLayout;

protected void initUIComponents() {
    drawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
    mNavigationDrawerFragment = (NavigationDrawerFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.navigation_drawer);
    mNavigationDrawerFragment.setUp(R.id.navigation_drawer, drawerLayout, drawerItems);
}

@Override
public void onNavigationDrawerItemSelected(int itemlabelId) {
    FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
    fragmentManager.beginTransaction().replace(R.id.realcontent, CustomFragmentManager.newInstance(itemlabelId)).commit();
}

NavigationDrawerFragment.java

View rootView = (RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_fragment_drawer, container, false);
ListView mDrawerListView = (ListView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.drawer_list);
    LinearLayout footerView = (LinearLayout) rootView.findViewById(R.id.footer);