Display Drawer menu icons to the right of menu items

Question

I have a Navigation Drawer that opens from right to left, everything is working fine and the hamburger icon is working fine and it's in the right corner but menu icons are at the left of menu items.

How to move them to the right of menu items?

Please see the screen shot

This is my menu.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <group android:checkableBehavior="none">
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_home"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_navigation_home"
            android:title="@string/nav_menu_home" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_profile"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_profile"
            android:title="@string/nav_profile" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_help"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_navigation_help"
            android:title="@string/nav_help" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_manage"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_manage"
            android:title="@string/nav_manage" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_logout"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_logout"
            android:title="@string/nav_logout" />
    </group>
    <item android:title="@string/nav_communicate">
        <menu>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/nav_facebook"
                android:icon="@drawable/ic_facebookx"
                android:title="@string/nav_face_page" />
            <item
                android:id="@+id/nav_send"
                android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_send"
                android:title="@string/nav_contact" />
        </menu>
    </item>
</menu>

and this is my layout

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">
    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:openDrawer="start">
    <include
        layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />
    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
        app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
</LinearLayout>

I searched a lot but didn't find anything related to this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want to use NavigationView for handling DrawerLayout, make your NavigationView right to left by following code:

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) //call this before super.onCreate
private void forceRtlIfSupported() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) {
        getWindow().getDecorView().setLayoutDirection(View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL);
    }
}

and set RTL flag in AndroidManifiest.xml

android:supportsRtl="true"

unfortunately above code only supported for API 16 and later. In order to handle lower API, you can also implement DrawerLayout with ListView and do whatever you want. You can find a tutorial about this approach here.