Facebook's Android app (How to do?)

Question

I am trying to figure out the best way to develop an android application nowadays. That's why I want to learn using relevant controls/layouts when developing an application.

My previous question was about Instagram's Android application. At here.

Current question is about Facebook's.

FB Android app - settings part

I am wondering how Facebook app doing that, via which control? When you slide screen left on Facebook app, settings panel will be shown.

Is it an activity/frame/table or something else? How this app separates screen to two?

Any ideas?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '13 at 18:35

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To create a slide menu, you can use the Navigation Drawer that Google just introduced at the Google I/O 2013, is included in the Support Library.

Design http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation-drawer.html

Example tutorial: http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/nav-drawer.html

answered May 17 '13 at 18:35

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it doesn't slide out the content, but instead, it slides OVER the content – gaara87 May 18 '13 at 05:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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You must use Android Drawers.

You will find more information here.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered May 17 '13 at 18:23

lopez.mikhael

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '13 at 18:25

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I believe they are using HTML5 for this purpose. Checkout this :

http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.3.0-beta.1/docs/panels/#

answered May 17 '13 at 18:25

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This should be easy to tell, place your google device into debug mode and and enable the view boundaries options. If it is html5 in a webview it will only have one box for the entire thing. – draksia May 17 '13 at 18:41

Facebook's Android app (How to do?)

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