How To Create An Expandable Listview Inside Navigation Drawer?

I need to create a navigation drawer like flipkart or Astro file manager app. How can I replace a listView with an expandable listView? I need an navigation Drawer like this: This

Solution 1:

You can create an ExpandableListView and use it as your NavigationView. An example of xml result:

<LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"android:orientation="vertical"tools:context=".MainActivity"><includelayout="@layout/toolbar"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content" /><!-- This DrawerLayout has two children at the root  --><android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayoutandroid:id="@+id/drawer_layout"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"><!-- This LinearLayout represents the contents of the screen  --><LinearLayoutandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:orientation="vertical"><!-- The main content view where fragments are loaded --><FrameLayoutandroid:id="@+id/flContent"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent" /></LinearLayout><!-- The navigation drawer that comes from the left --><!-- Note that `android:layout_gravity` needs to be set to 'start' --><ExpandableListViewandroid:id="@+id/lvExp"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_gravity="start"/></android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

You can find an example of using an ExpandableListView here

Solution 2:

You must make an ExpandableListView in your NavigationDrawer you please follow throw these links and apply How to create drawer navigation like this? and list and expandable list in single drawer hope this will help you

Solution 3:

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="240dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
    app:itemIconTint="@color/colorPrimary"
    app:itemTextAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Body2">


    <ExpandableListView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
        android:id="@+id/navigationmenu"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="41dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="90dp"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
        android:dividerHeight="1dp"
        android:groupIndicator="@null"
        android:listSelector="@color/colorAccent" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/session_logout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="40dp"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:text="Logout"
        android:textColor="#fff" />

</android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>

Solution 4:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:background="#FFFFFF"android:orientation="vertical"><RelativeLayoutandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="52dp"android:background="@color/themeColor"android:padding="10dp"><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/home"android:layout_width="35dp"android:layout_height="35dp"android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"android:background="@drawable/menu_icon" /><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/appname"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"android:layout_marginTop="5dp"android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/home"android:gravity="left|center_vertical"android:text="Home"android:textColor="#FFFFFF"android:textSize="20dp" /><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/imageView2"android:layout_width="35dp"android:layout_height="35dp"android:layout_alignParentRight="true"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|right"android:src="@android:drawable/ic_menu_share" /><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/imageView3"android:layout_width="25dp"android:layout_height="25dp"android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"android:layout_marginRight="10dp"android:layout_marginTop="5dp"android:src="@drawable/setting"android:visibility="gone" /></RelativeLayout><android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="0dp"android:layout_weight="1"><!-- Drawer Content --><FrameLayoutandroid:id="@+id/content_frame"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:layout_marginTop="10dp" /><!-- The navigation menu --><LinearLayoutandroid:id="@+id/header"android:layout_width="260dp"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:layout_gravity="left"android:background="@color/colorDrawer"android:orientation="vertical"><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/imageView"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="50dp"android:layout_gravity="top"android:paddingLeft="50dp"android:paddingRight="50dp"android:paddingTop="5dp"android:src="@drawable/logo" /><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/textView2"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="1dp"android:background="@color/colorDrawerText" /><ExpandableListViewandroid:id="@+id/lvExp"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:layout_marginTop="10dp"android:background="@color/colorDrawer"android:choiceMode="singleChoice"android:groupIndicator="@android:color/transparent"android:listSelector="@color/themeColor"></ExpandableListView></LinearLayout></android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout></LinearLayout><!--android:groupIndicator="@null"-->

This is done going through the androihive.com tutorial - "ExpandableListView example" =============Link for your reference is http://www.androidhive.info/2013/07/android-expandable-list-view-tutorial/
Vinod Kumar Gaur