I am having a problem getting an Android DrawerLayout to close.
In my implementation I am using a LinearLayout rather than a listView. The list view implementation is the one commonly be found in most of the tutorials and discussed on this site.
In my implementation I want to use the same DrawerLayout on all activities of my application. For that reason, in all of my XML layout files I use an include to cut down the amount of code one needs to store.
The functionality of the drawer and it's buttons is exactly as I want them to be. The draw slides open on a swipe, closes on a swipe and all buttons respond with the appropriate functionality. However, I cannot get the drawer to close programmatically by calling any of the following. It simply has no effect.
drawerLayout.closeDrawers();
drawerLayout.closeDrawer(GRAVITY_START);
drawerLayout.closeDrawer(drawerLinearLayout);
I tried a few variants on this like calling the whole DrawLayout object from the veiw to no avail, I tried different gravity options. Here I just got run time errors complaining about illegal states. Why is closing the draw programmatically such a hard thing to do? Why does closeDrawers not work? How can I close it simply and cleanly?
Below is some code from one such Activity's layout.
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- As the main content view, the view below consumes the entire
space available using match_parent in both dimensions. -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="@+id/content_frame"
android:background="#000000"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<include android:id="@+id/left_draw"
android:layout_width="240dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
layout="@layout/options_draw"
android:layout_gravity="start"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
The include refers to a layout which is below. It defines a layout of 6 buttons plus two radio buttons.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/drawer_linear_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@drawable/splash_screen1"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="8" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:background="@color/t_blue"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="10" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/cmd_map"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:layout_weight="5"
android:background="@drawable/gradient_button1"
android:onClick="option1Selected"
android:text="@string/drawer_cmd_map" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/cmd_locdata"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:layout_weight="5"
android:background="@drawable/gradient_button1"
android:onClick="option2Selected"
android:text="@string/drawer_cmd_locdata" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:background="@color/t_blue"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="10" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/cmd_hurlist"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:layout_weight="5"
android:background="@drawable/gradient_button1"
android:onClick="option3Selected"
android:text="@string/drawer_cmd_hurlisrt" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/cmd_settings"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:layout_weight="5"
android:background="@drawable/gradient_button1"
android:onClick="option4Selected"
android:text="@string/drawer_cmd_legend" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:background="@drawable/bk_gradient4"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="10" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginBottom="10px"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingTop="5dp"
android:text="@string/drawer_txt_datapoints"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<RadioGroup
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:id="@+id/radio_group">
<RadioButton
android:id="@+id/first_radio_button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:checked="true"
android:paddingLeft="40dip"
android:text="@string/drawer_rb_data_option1"/>
<RadioButton
android:id="@+id/second_radio_button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:checked="false"
android:paddingLeft="40dip"
android:text="@string/drawer_rb_data_option2" />
</RadioGroup>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:background="@color/t_blue"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="10" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/cmd_legend"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:layout_weight="5"
android:background="@drawable/gradient_button1"
android:onClick="option5Selected"
android:text="@string/drawer_cmd_settings" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/cmd_about"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:layout_weight="5"
android:background="@drawable/gradient_button1"
android:onClick="option6Selected"
android:text="@string/drawer_cmd_about" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I am aware there is another topic on this problem (here), but this relates specifically to a DrawLayout with a listView. I am creating a drawerLayout with a LinearLayout so this question is different.
