In android how to set navigation drawer header image and name programmatically in class file?

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Android Problem Overview


In android studio 1.4.1, I have created new Navigation Drawer Project which is default.My issue is in this project there is nav_header_main.xml file which is for navigation header image and name. I want this image and name should be set programmatically in my main class activity. How to do this, I tried lot but the app crashes.

nav_header_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout        
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/headerView"
android:layout_height="@dimen/nav_header_height"
android:background="@drawable/side_nav_bar"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark">

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imageView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/nav_header_vertical_spacing"
    android:src="@android:drawable/sym_def_app_icon" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/nav_header_vertical_spacing"
    android:text="Android Studio"
    android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Body1" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="[email protected]" />

</LinearLayout>

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout            

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:openDrawer="start">

<include
    layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />

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

MainActivity.Class

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton;
import android.support.design.widget.NavigationView;
import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar;
import android.support.v4.view.GravityCompat;
import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
        implements NavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        LinearLayout headerImageView= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.headerView);


        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        FloatingActionButton fab = (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.fab);
        fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                Snackbar.make(view, "Replace with your own action", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
                        .setAction("Action", null).show();
            }
        });

        DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        ActionBarDrawerToggle toggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(
                this, drawer, toolbar, R.string.navigation_drawer_open, R.string.navigation_drawer_close);
        drawer.setDrawerListener(toggle);
        toggle.syncState();

        NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
        navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this);
        
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        if (drawer.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) {
            drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
        } else {
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"working",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("StatementWithEmptyBody")
    @Override
    public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle navigation view item clicks here.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        if (id == R.id.nav_camara) {
            // Handle the camera action
        } else if (id == R.id.nav_gallery) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_slideshow) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_manage) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_share) {

        } else if (id == R.id.nav_send) {

        }

        DrawerLayout drawer = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
       
        return true;
    }
}

Android Solutions


Solution 1 - Android

NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
View hView = navigationView.getHeaderView(0);
TextView nav_user = (TextView) hView.findViewById(R.id.nav_name);
nav_user.setText(user);

Solution 2 - Android

As mentioned in the bug 190226, Since version 23.1.0 getting header layout view with: navigationView.findViewById(R.id.navigation_header_text) no longer works.

A workaround is to inflate the headerview programatically and find view by ID from the inflated header view.

For example:

View headerView = navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.navigation_header);
headerView.findViewById(R.id.navigation_header_text);

Ideally there should be a method getHeaderView() but it has already been proposed, let's see and wait for it to be released in the feature release of design support library.

Solution 3 - Android

don't add header in xml add using code by inflating layout

View hView =  navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.nav_header_main);
ImageView imgvw = (ImageView)hView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
TextView tv = (TextView)hView.findViewById(R.id.textview);
imgvw .setImageResource();
tv.settext("new text");

Solution 4 - Android

In Kotlin

    val hView = nav_view.getHeaderView(0)
    val textViewName = hView.findViewById(R.id.textViewName) as TextView
    val textViewEmail = hView.findViewById(R.id.textViewEmail) as TextView
    val imgvw = hView.findViewById(R.id.imageView) as ImageView
    imgvw.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_menu_gallery)

Solution 5 - Android

First you need to access the navigation drawer in your MainActivity(or the calling activity) like this:

    NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);

Then you need to remove the header layout from the activity_main.xml because the layout will be inflated programatically in the MainActivity. Your activity_main.xml should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout            

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:openDrawer="start">

<include
    layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />

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

Then in your MainActivity, we inflate the nav_header_main layout and get access to its views, in this case the ImageView and TextView

//inflate header layout
View navView =  navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.nav_header_main);
//reference to views
ImageView imgvw = (ImageView)navView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
TextView tv = (TextView)navView.findViewById(R.id.textview);
//set views
imgvw.setImageResource(R.drawable.your_image);
tv.setText("new text");

navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this);

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Solution 6 - Android

val navigationView: NavigationView =  findViewById(R.id.nv)
val header: View = navigationView.getHeaderView(0)
val tv: TextView = header.findViewById(R.id.profilename)
tv.text = "Your_Text"

This will fix your problem <3

Solution 7 - Android

Here is my code below perfectly working Do not add the header in NavigationView tag in activity_main.xml

http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:id="@+id/drawer_layout" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:fitsSystemWindows="true" tools:openDrawer="start">

<include
    layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer"
    app:itemBackground="@drawable/active_drawer_color" />

add header programmatically with below code

View navHeaderView = navigationView.inflateHeaderView(R.layout.nav_header_main);
    headerUserName = (TextView) navHeaderView.findViewById(R.id.nav_header_username);
    headerMobileNo = (TextView) navHeaderView.findViewById(R.id.nav_header_mobile);
    headerMobileNo.setText("+918861899697");
    headerUserName.setText("Anirudh R Huilgol");

Solution 8 - Android

  nav = ( NavigationView ) findViewById( R.id.navigation );

    if( nav != null ){
        LinearLayout mParent = ( LinearLayout ) nav.getHeaderView( 0 );

        if( mParent != null ){
            // Set your values to the image and text view by declaring and setting as you need to here.

            SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences("user_data", MODE_PRIVATE);
            String photoUrl = prefs.getString("photo_url", null);
            String user_name = prefs.getString("name", "User");

            if(photoUrl!=null) {
                Log.e("Photo Url: ", photoUrl);

                TextView userName = mParent.findViewById(R.id.user_name);
                userName.setText(user_name);

                ImageView user_imageView = mParent.findViewById(R.id.avatar);
                
                RequestOptions requestOptions = new RequestOptions();
                requestOptions.placeholder(R.drawable.ic_user_24dp);
                requestOptions.error(R.drawable.ic_user_24dp);

                Glide.with(this).load(photoUrl)
                        .apply(requestOptions).thumbnail(0.5f).into(user_imageView);

            }

        }
    }

Hope this helps.

Solution 9 - Android

EDIT : Works with design library upto 23.0.1 but doesn't work on 23.1.0

In main layout xml you will have NavigationView defined, in that use app:headerLayout to set the header view.

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_drawer_header"
        app:menu="@menu/navigation_drawer_menu" />

And the @layout/nav_drawer_header will be the place holder of the image and texts.

nav_drawer_header.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="170dp"
android:orientation="vertical">

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/headerRelativeLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"
        android:src="@drawable/background" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/action_bar_size"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:background="#40000000"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingLeft="16dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:paddingTop="5dp">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_marginLeft="35dp"
            android:orientation="vertical"
            android:weightSum="2">


            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/navHeaderTitle"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
                android:textColor="@android:color/white" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/navHeaderSubTitle"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
                android:textColor="@android:color/white" />

        </LinearLayout>

    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

And in your main class, you can take handle of Imageview and TextView as like normal other views.

TextView navHeaderTitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.navHeaderTitle);
navHeaderTitle.setText("Application Name");

TextView navHeaderSubTitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.navHeaderSubTitle);
navHeaderSubTitle.setText("Application Caption");

Hope this helps.

Solution 10 - Android

NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view); navigationView.addHeaderView(yourview);

Solution 11 - Android

I know this is an old post but i am sure that this might help someone down the road.

You can simply get the headerView element of the Navigation view by doing this:

 NavigationView mView = ( NavigationView ) findViewById( R.id.nav_view );
 
 if( mView != null ){
     LinearLayout mParent = ( LinearLayout ) mView.getHeaderView( 0 );

     if( mParent != null ){
        // Set your values to the image and text view by declaring and setting as you need to here. 
     }
 }

I hope that this helps someone.

Solution 12 - Android

Also you can use Kotlinx features

val hView = nav_view.getHeaderView(0)
hView.textViewName.text = "lorem ipsum"
hView.imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_menu_gallery)

Solution 13 - Android

   FirebaseAuth firebaseauth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance(); 

   NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);   //displays text of header of nav drawer.
    View headerview = navigationView.getHeaderView(0);

    TextView tt1 = (TextView) headerview.findViewById(R.id.textview_username);
    tt1.setText(firebaseauth.getCurrentUser().getDisplayName());//username of logged in user.  

   TextView tt = (TextView) headerview.findViewById(R.id.textView_emailid);
    tt.setText(firebaseauth.getCurrentUser().getEmail());    //email id of logged in user.

    final ImageView img1 = (ImageView) headerview.findViewById(R.id.imageView_userimage);
    Glide.with(getApplicationContext())
            .load(firebaseauth.getCurrentUser().getPhotoUrl()).asBitmap().atMost().error(R.drawable.ic_selfie_point_icon)   //asbitmap after load always.
            .into(new SimpleTarget<Bitmap>() {
                @Override
                public void onResourceReady(Bitmap resource, GlideAnimation<? super Bitmap> glideAnimation) {
                    img1.setImageBitmap(resource);
                }
            });

I have made this code by myself with some logic...Its 100% working.....pls do upvote my ans.

The textview and imageview are from @layout/nav_header_main.xml

Solution 14 - Android

If you're using bindings you can do

val headerView = binding.navView.getHeaderView(0)
val headerBinding = NavDrawerHeaderBinding.bind(headerView)
headerBinding.textView.text = "Your text here"

Solution 15 - Android

It's and old post, but it's new for me. So, it is straight forward! In this part of the code:

 public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

} , I bound an ImageView to the LinearLayout, which contains the ImageView from the example, listed below. Mind: it's the same code you get when you start a new project, and choose the template "Navigation Drawer Activity":

<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/nav_header_vertical_spacing"
android:src="@android:drawable/sym_def_app_icon" />

I gave the LinearLayout and ID, inside nav_header_main.xml (in my case I chose 'navigation_header_container' , so it went this way:

LinearLayout lV = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.navigation_header_container);

    ivCloseDrawer = (ImageView) lV.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
    ivCloseDrawer.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
        }
    });

Note: I have a private ImageView ivCloseDrawer declared at the top, before onCreate (MainActivity).

Solution 16 - Android

Here is the method you can use to get header view and set data accourdingly

val headerView: View? = navigationView.getHeaderView(0) // Index of the added headerView  

// Now you can access child views of the header view
val titleTextView: TextView? = headerView?.findViewById(R.id.titleTextView)

Solution 17 - Android

For those who use KOTLIN :

val headerview = binding.navDrawer.getHeaderView(0)
val NavDrawheaderviewRef = NavdrawerHeaderLayoutBinding.bind(headerview)

NavDrawheaderviewRef.btnSearch.setOnClickListener
{
Toast.make(this , "Hii buddy",LENGTH_SHORT).show()    
    }

Here :

  • navDrawer = id of my Navigation Drawer
  • NavdrawerHeaderLayoutBinding = a func which is used to get a ref of header layout.
  • btnSearch = a button present in the header layout

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