How to close the Navigation drawer in android

Question

My application has a navigation drawer. From drawer options, I am opening different activities. At that time a blank screen is displayed before the new Activity.

@Override public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {

switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.nav_message:

        Intent newAct = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), FeedbackActivity.class);
        startActivity(newAct);
    
       break;


}


drawer.closeDrawer(Gravity.RIGHT);
return true;

}

As per some investigations, I found like we need to remove the below code from this. Tried the same and working fine.

drawer.closeDrawer(Gravity.RIGHT);
    return true;

But when I click the back button from the new activity, the drawer is still open status. How can I close without that black screen?

Move the `drawer.close` before you startActivity, doesn't that do the trick? — Martin Marconcini, Apr 13 '21 at 17:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '21 at 18:01

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Have you tried passing GRAVITY.START as a parameter to drawer.close(int gravity), like this:

switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.nav_message:

        Intent newAct = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), FeedbackActivity.class);
        startActivity(newAct);
    
       break;


}



drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
return true;

And don't forget to initialize the drawer object with findViewById()

answered Apr 13 '21 at 18:01

Yousha Arif

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Thanks a lot. I initialized the drawer object as final. Issue fixed by removing final declaration. – Malhotra Apr 14 '21 at 06:19

Gurgen Arustamyan · Answer 2 · 2021-04-14T10:54:47.147

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Try to disable drawer menu animation and call closeDrawer before starting new activity

    drawer.closeDrawer(Gravity.RIGHT, false);
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.nav_message:

        Intent newAct = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), FeedbackActivity.class);
        startActivity(newAct);
    
       break;


}

return true;

edited Apr 14 '21 at 10:54

answered Apr 13 '21 at 19:51

Gurgen Arustamyan

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Unable to add the drawer.closeDrawer(Gravity.RIGHT, false); after switch without case label. – Malhotra Apr 14 '21 at 06:09
Sorry, my bad. I edited it, you are right. – Gurgen Arustamyan Apr 14 '21 at 10:55

How to close the Navigation drawer in android

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