Android Facebook style slide

Question

The new Facebook application and its navigation is so cool. I was just trying to see how it can be emulated in my application.

Anyone has a clue how it can be achie

Answer 1

For info, as the compatibility library starts with 1.6 and this facebook app is also running on devices with Android 1.5, it could not be done with Fragments.

The way you could do it, is : Create a "base" activity BaseMenuActivity where you put all the logic for the onItemClickListener for your menu list and defines the 2 animation ("open" and "close"). At the end/beginning of the animations, you show/hide the layout of the BaseMenuActivity (lets call it menu_layout). The layout for this activity is simple, its only a list with items + a transparent part at the right of your list. This part will be clickable and its width will be the same width as your "move button". With that, you'll be able to click on this layout to start the animation to let the content_layout slide to the left and take the whole screen. For each option (i.e. item of the menu list), you create a "ContentActivity" which extends the BaseMenuActivity. Then when you click on an item of the list, you start your ItemSelectedContentActivity with the menu visible (which you'll close as soon as your activity starts). The layouts for each ContentActivity are FrameLayout and includes the and . You just need to move the content_layout and make the menu_layout visible when you want.

That's a way to do it, and I hope I've been clear enough.