Background image and image view in Navigation Drawer

Question

I am trying out a navigation drawer design similar to play store App: I have got the menu part things working fine but I would like to add the profile image and user id in the top of menu like image below. I am not sure how to achieve this part:

I have tried the following code and added it in xml which has the list of items to be shown.

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayoutFrom1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="left|center"
    android:background="@drawable/bg"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/clear1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/profilepic" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textViewName"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="UserID"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="15sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />
</LinearLayout>

but this just appends the background and text for each listitem.

How do I achieve the above design?

UPDATE 1:

I tried the following in the XML:

<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" >

<FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/framelayoutid"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />


<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayoutFrom1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/bg"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/LinearLayoutFrom2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_weight=".20" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/clear1"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:src="@drawable/profilepic" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/LinearLayoutFrom3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight=".80"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textViewName"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:text="UserID"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="15sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/left_panel"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:background="@color/list"
        android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
        android:divider="@color/divider"
        android:dividerHeight="1dp"
        android:listSelector="@drawable/selector" />
</LinearLayout>

</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

I get the following error:

http://txs.io/4bpb

Update 2:

I managed to add header to list by doing the following:

    mDrawerList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.left_menu);

    View header = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.headerlayoutfordrawer, null); 
    mDrawerList.addHeaderView(header);

    navDrawerItems = new ArrayList<NavDrawerItem>();

    navDrawerItems.add(new NavDrawerItem(navMenuTitles[0], navMenuIcons.getResourceId(0, -1)));
    navDrawerItems.add(new NavDrawerItem(navMenuTitles[1], navMenuIcons.getResourceId(1, -1),true, "2"));
    navDrawerItems.add(new NavDrawerItem(navMenuTitles[2], navMenuIcons.getResourceId(2, -1)));
    navDrawerItems.add(new NavDrawerItem(navMenuTitles[3], navMenuIcons.getResourceId(3, -1)));
    navDrawerItems.add(new NavDrawerItem(navMenuTitles[4], navMenuIcons.getResourceId(4, -1)));
    navDrawerItems.add(new NavDrawerItem(navMenuTitles[5], navMenuIcons.getResourceId(5, -1)));
    navMenuIcons.recycle();

    mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new SlideMenuClickListener());

    adapter = new NavDrawerListAdapter(getApplicationContext(), navDrawerItems);
    mDrawerList.setAdapter(adapter);

But the problem is that the header is also being counted in arraylist in DrawerItems and hence I get array outofboundexception

  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229): java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=6; index=7
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at com.jlk.trip.maps.displayView(maps.java:192)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at com.jlk.trip.maps.access$0(maps.java:159)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at com.jlk.trip.maps.maps$SlideMenuClickListener.onItemClick(maps.java:122)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:298)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.widget.AbsListView.performItemClick(AbsListView.java:1100)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:2788)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.widget.AbsListView$1.run(AbsListView.java:3463)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:730)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)  
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:737)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
  07-22 11:18:01.433: E/AndroidRuntime(14229):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

UPDATE:

Take a look at this project for everything related with the drawer. https://github.com/Sottti/MaterialDesignNavDrawer

OLD ANSWER:

Take a look at my xml here: https://github.com/Sottti/BuyIt/blob/master/BuyIt/src/main/res/layout/activity_main.xml

Pay attention at where it says "YOUR DRAWER".

The Navigation Drawer is the second child in android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout.

The second child is a LinearLayout containing a RelativeLayout and a ListView.

The ListView is the Drawer list view it self.

The Relative layout is the place where the image header is located.

Try that, it's working for me.

Luck!!

Answer 2

Use the addHeaderView() method provided by ListView. Note: this will cause the ArrayAdapter to interpret the image as the first item in your list. To deal with this, use the option in addHeaderView to disable clicking, and move all the elements in your array up by 1 (essentially creating a dummy value at the 0th element). When your navigation drawer is first called, you may need to add a snippet like the following:

if (savedInstanceState == null) {
            selectItem(1);
        }

Answer 3

You can find how Google handle this issue in navdrawer_content layout of Google IO's Android app.
Short answer: they don't use ListView.