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Android Developers: Navigation drawer

Documents navigation drawers as slide-in menus for app sections, including modal and standard drawer types, menu-icon or swipe activation, drawer state control, grouped drawer contents, and top-app-bar integration.

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Navigation drawer Choose a navigation drawer when destinations need occasional access from a constrained layout and can tolerate one extra open step. The opener toggles or opens the drawer and exposes expanded or modal state as appropriate. Android Compose documents slide-in drawer activation, ModalNavigationDrawer, DrawerState, grouped content, and top-app-bar integration.

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Publisher: Google Android Developers. Last checked: .