Android sliding drawer example

Consider a case of complex UI where you do not have space on your android application screen but you have to show some extra data on same screen?
There are two way in such a condition --

1) Switching view using LayoutInflater or fragments - but its very costly if as it will need space from visible portion

2) Using menu and action bar - unfortunately we can only show button there to perform action.

Then what should we so ? android provide Sliding drawer for such a requirement. It does not take main screen space. and it open when ever a user want to open. Most importantly , you can show any complex user interface inside a sliding drawer.

Creating sliding drawer is simple. It just need two component--

•  A button, will visible all the time to open and close sliding drawer. but we do not need to set listener for this.
• And Layout that will show when you open sliding drawer. I have taken a ListView inside sliding drawer

Sliding Drawer Closed

                             

Sliding Drawer Opened

Action On Sliding Drawer Element

                                               

Now you just need to download the sample application and start playing with it. 

Sliding Drawer Source Code

I have browse about sliding drawer and i found a very useful link to create sliding drawer from Left to right or Right to left See Going into depth of Custom Sliding drawer