Xamarin.Android : Add the dynamic menu items to Navigation view of DrawerLayout

Question

I followed this sample to design the Navigation menu view using android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout.

My Static Menu item list defined in drawer_menuList.xml as :

 <group
        android:id="@+id/group"
        android:checkableBehavior="single">
        <item
            android:id="@+id/item1"
            android:icon="@drawable/item1"
            android:title="Item1" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/Item2"
            android:icon="@drawable/item2"
            android:title="Item2"/>
    </group>

activity_main.axml :

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer_menuList" />

I found this similar thread on stack overflow and tried this :

NavigationView mDrawerList = FindViewById<NavigationView>(Resource.Id.nav_view);

Menu menu = mDrawerList.getMenu();

I am not getting any getMenu()/GetMenu() method in xamarin.android. Can anyone suggest the right way to add the menu along with the icons dynamically in NavigationView of DrawerLayout.

.Menu, usually the way Xamarin approach the 'getX' is to convert it to a property — Donald Jansen, Nov 22 '16 at 10:03
getX : It returns the visual x position of the view. But as per android document getMenu(), returns the Menu instance associated with this navigation view. I need this not the visual coordinate position — Himanshu Dwivedi, Nov 22 '16 at 10:08

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '16 at 17:04

Answering to my question :

Suppose you have a list of Menu items such as :

List<MenuItems> lst = new List<MenuItems>();
lst = GetMenuItems();

Then in xamarin we can dynamically populate the Menu items with their title and icon as :

NavigationView navigationView = FindViewById<NavigationView>(Resource.Id.nav_view);
    foreach (MenuItems objMenuItems in lst)
      {
         int iconID = (int)typeof(Resource.Drawable).GetField(objMenuItems.IconName).GetValue(null);

         navigationView.Menu.Add(objMenuItems.Title).SetIcon(iconID);
      }

By this way you can dynamically add the menu items in NavigationView of DrawerLayout.

Good answer dear :)! – Manish Shrivastava Dec 05 '16 at 09:19 — Manish Shrivastava, Dec 05 '16 at 09:19

Xamarin.Android : Add the dynamic menu items to Navigation view of DrawerLayout

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