NavigationView set selected item as checked

Question

I am using NavigationView from the support library. I have a BaseActivity that Activity A and B extend from.

By default app starts with Activity A. When user clicks on a a drawer menu item, i start activity B.

After starting activity B. how can i set the menu item corresponding with it to be highlighted as checked?

Thanks in advance

UPDATE:

Now with the latest update to the support library, you can do:

mDrawer.setCheckedItem(R.id.drawer_profile);

Here is an example http://thegeekyland.blogspot.com/2015/11/navigation-drawer-how-set-selected-item.html — Arlind Hajredinaj, Dec 04 '15 at 19:22

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '16 at 04:03

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Use the code below:

navigationView.getMenu().getItem(0).setChecked(true);

Call this method after you call setNavDrawer();

The getItem(int index) method gets the MenuItem then you can call the setChecked(true); on that MenuItem, all you left to do and find out is which element index does the home the default have, and replace the 0 with that index.

edited Mar 20 '16 at 04:03

Jared Burrows

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answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:50

Arlind Hajredinaj

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Great it's working. is it possible to replace the getItem(1) with a getItem(R.id...)? – TareK Khoury Aug 06 '15 at 16:58
@TareKhoury no as I explained the 0 is the index of the menu item that you want to set Checked ( highlighted ), R.id.... gets some ID from the R file and that might not be an element ( valid index ) of the Menus list. – Arlind Hajredinaj Aug 06 '15 at 17:00
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In future, rather than re-post your answer, vote to close the question as a duplicate, please. – Martijn Pieters Aug 07 '15 at 08:00
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Use... `findItem(int id)` if you want to use R.id... – EMalik Apr 07 '16 at 05:19
This does not work for me, what is the setNavDrawer() method? – Denny Dec 03 '16 at 23:54
Sorry Im new to this, android that is, been doing ios. Where is the setNavDrawer()?! – Learn2Code Mar 14 '19 at 00:49

NavigationView set selected item as checked

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