Using navigationView with tabLayout

Question

So I\'ve recently been working on updating my app to use the new material design support library. My application has one main activity with a drawerLayout and navigation vie

Answer 1

I can't recommend what Yiyo suggested. If you are going to have Fragments with different layouts, you should let the Fragments customize these layouts in the XML. This is why the introduction of Toolbar made so much sense for Android development. In the future, you might even have more requirements that differ between each Fragment. Some of them might not want a Toolbar, some of them might need another View above the Toolbar, some of them will have a RecyclerView that you would like to be accessible to the CoordinatorLayout and AppBar so that the scrolling behavior works properly.

I recommend you to put only a FrameLayout as the content of your DrawerLayout (as Yiyo mentioned in point 1). Here you will load each Fragment from the callbacks of the NavigationView.

In each Fragment's XML you will put, if required by that Fragment, a Toolbar. In your tabbed Fragment's XML you will put the TabLayout, and if you so wish, the CoordinatorLayout and AppBarLayout. From each Fragment that has a Toolbar, you will set the Toolbar as the ActionBar:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) view.findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
AppCompatActivity activity = (AppCompatActivity) getActivity();
activity.setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

That's all there is to it. Of course you don't want to repeat yourself in every Fragment, so you can, for example, put this code in a DrawerFragment and subclass it for fragments with a Toolbar. You will also want to put your Toolbar XML configuration in a single file and include it in the Fragment's XML . Or you might want to remove the Toolbar from some fragments, or change its color, theme, etc.