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Android

Michael B
Michael B
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Posted by Michael B
Michael B
2,997 Points

Navigation Drawers and Fragments

Hi there,

I'm relatively new to Navigation Drawers, and have been following Ben's blog post about how to add one to a project. However, since I'm not starting my project from scratch and already have Fragments in the project, I'm a little confused about how the layout should be.

  1. Do Navigation Drawers always have to be in the MainActivity? Or can they be created in Fragments too?
  2. Suppose I created a Drawer in my MainActivity. I have a bunch of methods in my Fragment that I want to use depending on what drawers are clicked. So should I just be calling my Fragment's methods directly from MainActivity? It seems like this would create a lot of Context problems and some methods needing to be run on UI threads.

Thanks in advance!