NavigationView Libraries for Android

A look at some third party awesome NavigationView libraries for android.

PatilShreyas/MaterialNavigationView-Android

Android Library to implement Rich, Beautiful, Stylish Material Navigation View for your project with Material Design Guidelines. Easy to use.

Here is a demo of NavigationView implemented using this library:

Step 1: Requirements

Make sure you have the following enabled in your project:

• AndroidX
• Minimum SDK API 19
• Theme - Material Components

Step 2: Add Dependency

In Build.gradle of app module, include these dependencies.

dependencies {

    // Material Navigation View Library
    implementation 'com.shreyaspatil:MaterialNavigationView:1.2'

    // Material Design Library
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'
}

Step 3: Set up Material Theme

In your styles.xml setup a Material theme as follows:

<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

        <!-- colorSecondary will be applied to Menu item of NavigationView -->
        <item name="colorSecondary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        ...
    </style>
</resources>

These are required prerequisites to implement Material Navigation View library.

Step 4: Create Activity XML

Then add the DrawerLayout in your xml layout:

<androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:openDrawer="start">

    <!-- Other Stuff here -->

    <com.shreyaspatil.material.navigationview.MaterialNavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:theme="@style/Widget.NavigationView.RippleEffect"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:itemStyle="rounded_right"
        app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer"/>

</androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout>

Available Flags

Example as follows:

<com.shreyaspatil.material.navigationview.MaterialNavigationView
        ...
        app:itemStyle="rounded_right"/>

Thus, we have successfully implemented design styles of Menu items.

Step 5: Create Activity Code (Java/Kotlin)

Here is a demo of MaterialNavigationView in which we will switch item style of NavigationView after selecting menu:

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    private lateinit var navView: MaterialNavigationView

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        ...
        navView = findViewById(R.id.nav_view)
        ...
    }

    override fun onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem): Boolean {
        when (item.itemId) {
            R.id.action_default -> {
                navView.setItemStyle(MaterialNavigationView.ITEM_STYLE_DEFAULT)
            }
            R.id.action_round_rect -> {
                navView.setItemStyle(MaterialNavigationView.ITEM_STYLE_ROUND_RECTANGLE)
            }
            R.id.action_round_right -> {
                navView.setItemStyle(MaterialNavigationView.ITEM_STYLE_ROUND_RIGHT)
            }
        }
        return false
    }
}

Migrating from NavigationView

• Change in layout file - Just change package of component from com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView to com.shreyaspatil.material.navigationview.MaterialNavigationView wherever you used it.
• Change in Activity Code - Just change NavigationView class to MaterialNavigationView and import appropriate package. 🔥 Hurrah! you are done and successfully migrated to MaterialNavigationView. Now just run your app and see magic.

Reference

No.	Link
1.	Read more here.
2.	Follow code author here.