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Asked: 2026-06-09T22:26:09+00:00

How can I create a horizontal sliding drawer like the YouTube and Facebook app

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How can I create a horizontal sliding drawer like the YouTube and Facebook app has.

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Many other apps seem to use use the same style, so I’m guessing that this is a part of the default Androind UI framework but I can’t seem to piece it together.

You can see some more samples here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a sliding menu, you can implement this by writing a custom view. There are a lot of good open source examples. I would recommend you to use this one.

    You can use it by defining this in your Layout:

    <com.slidingmenu.lib.SlidingMenu
    xmlns:sliding="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/slidingmenulayout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    sliding:viewAbove="@layout/YOUR_ABOVE_VIEW"
    sliding:viewBehind="@layout/YOUR_BEHIND_BEHIND"
    sliding:touchModeAbove="margin|fullscreen"
    sliding:touchModeBehind="margin|fullscreen"
    sliding:behindOffset="@dimen/YOUR_OFFSET"
    sliding:behindWidth="@dimen/YOUR_WIDTH"
    sliding:behindScrollScale="@dimen/YOUR_SCALE"
    sliding:shadowDrawable="@drawable/YOUR_SHADOW"
    sliding:shadowWidth="@dimen/YOUR_SHADOW_WIDTH" />

    Edit:

    The Android team introduced an official sliding pattern on Google IO 2013. Read everything about it here.

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