The best way to do this is to create a custom DrawerLayout. I found this solution to work fine. Link to custom full-screen box layout implementation
public class FullDrawerLayout extends DrawerLayout { private static final int MIN_DRAWER_MARGIN = 0; // dp public FullDrawerLayout(Context context) { super(context); } public FullDrawerLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); } public FullDrawerLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); } @Override protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) { final int widthMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(widthMeasureSpec); final int heightMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(heightMeasureSpec); final int widthSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec); final int heightSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec); if (widthMode != MeasureSpec.EXACTLY || heightMode != MeasureSpec.EXACTLY) { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "DrawerLayout must be measured with MeasureSpec.EXACTLY."); } setMeasuredDimension(widthSize, heightSize); // Gravity value for each drawer we've seen. Only one of each permitted. int foundDrawers = 0; final int childCount = getChildCount(); for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) { final View child = getChildAt(i); if (child.getVisibility() == GONE) { continue; } final LayoutParams lp = (LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams(); if (isContentView(child)) { // Content views get measured at exactly the layout size. final int contentWidthSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec( widthSize - lp.leftMargin - lp.rightMargin, MeasureSpec.EXACTLY); final int contentHeightSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec( heightSize - lp.topMargin - lp.bottomMargin, MeasureSpec.EXACTLY); child.measure(contentWidthSpec, contentHeightSpec); } else if (isDrawerView(child)) { final int childGravity = getDrawerViewGravity(child) & Gravity.HORIZONTAL_GRAVITY_MASK; if ((foundDrawers & childGravity) != 0) { throw new IllegalStateException("Child drawer has absolute gravity " + gravityToString(childGravity) + " but this already has a " + "drawer view along that edge"); } final int drawerWidthSpec = getChildMeasureSpec(widthMeasureSpec, MIN_DRAWER_MARGIN + lp.leftMargin + lp.rightMargin, lp.width); final int drawerHeightSpec = getChildMeasureSpec(heightMeasureSpec, lp.topMargin + lp.bottomMargin, lp.height); child.measure(drawerWidthSpec, drawerHeightSpec); } else { throw new IllegalStateException("Child " + child + " at index " + i + " does not have a valid layout_gravity - must be Gravity.LEFT, " + "Gravity.RIGHT or Gravity.NO_GRAVITY"); } } } boolean isContentView(View child) { return ((LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams()).gravity == Gravity.NO_GRAVITY; } boolean isDrawerView(View child) { final int gravity = ((LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams()).gravity; final int absGravity = Gravity.getAbsoluteGravity(gravity, child.getLayoutDirection()); return (absGravity & (Gravity.LEFT | Gravity.RIGHT)) != 0; } int getDrawerViewGravity(View drawerView) { final int gravity = ((LayoutParams) drawerView.getLayoutParams()).gravity; return Gravity.getAbsoluteGravity(gravity, drawerView.getLayoutDirection()); } static String gravityToString(int gravity) { if ((gravity & Gravity.LEFT) == Gravity.LEFT) { return "LEFT"; } if ((gravity & Gravity.RIGHT) == Gravity.RIGHT) { return "RIGHT"; } return Integer.toHexString(gravity); } }
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