Open a SlidingDrawer via button

Question

How can I open a SlidingDrawer using a button not attached to it? In other words, I like to open it w/o the handle.

Answer 1

Im not sure if you still need help or not but I was just wondering the same thing.

"SlidingDrawer" is our object called "slider":

SlidingDrawer slider = (SlidingDrawer) findViewById(R.id.SlidingDrawer);

Call the method "open()", using our object name:

slider.open();

Example button that just opens the sliding drawer:

Button next = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Button01);
next.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View view) {
        slider.open();
    }
});

Answer 2

Calling .open() and .close() makes the drawer appear and disappear without animation. I don't know if this is generally the case - I tested this on 4.03 with the drawer in a RelativeLayout and it just popped into view without animation.

To make the SlidingDrawer open and close by sliding into the View when clicking a button, use:

slidingDrawer.animateOpen();

and

slidingDrawer.animateClose();

Answer 3

You need to override the handle's touch method(s) and pass down the touch event to the button.

Answer 4

Call open() on the SlidingDrawer.