I have a DrawerLayout
enclosing a NavigationView
and this layout activity serves as a common Navigation drawer for all the activities in my app. I am p
You can use expandable list views inside navigation drawers, I don't understand why you don't want to use them. More on that can be found here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ExpandableListView.html
If you insist on not using expandableListView, then the alternative is to design the expansion yourself using the menu's OnSelect for that specific item. Though I really don't know why you want this, you'd just be re-implementing the wheel.