Android Navigation Drawer and windowActionBarOverlay = true

Question

I\'m trying to implement the new Android Navigation Drawer in my application. I have created a BaseActivity.java that handles the Drawer setup and listeners, and I have two suba

Answer 1

You can set a margin at the top of your layout, so that the content draws itself below the ActionBar.

Just add this in your parent layout:

android:layout_marginTop="?android:attr/actionBarSize"

The attribute actionBarSize refers to, like you would have already guessed, to the size of the ActionBar. You can't set an absolute value as a margin, since the ActionBar does not always have the same size across all Android devices (It's bigger on tablets, smaller on handset devices).

Edit:

Set the margin to the ListView.

The Google Music app does the same: