Navigation Bar in ActionBar

Question

I have application and I'm using ActionBar. In every activity I'm using navigation button which takes me back to parent activity. Now I would like to add similar button in main activity which activate menu (the same action is implemented in Gmail Android Application).

Main Activity in Gmail application:

Main Activity in Gmail application after using navigation (menu) button in left top corner:

Do you know how can I do it?

Answer 1

That sliding menu is called Navigation Drawer.
Check this for a guide and sample app: http://developer.android.com/intl/es/training/implementing-navigation/nav-drawer.html

In that link explains how to configure the Action Bar and the menu itself.

UPDATE:
To handle click in that specific button you have to add this in your

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) method:

if(drawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item))  
{
     // Your code.
     return true;
}

You can find more about the object drawerToggle in the link I provided. Good luck.

Answer 2

Please read this training post. Download and investigate sample attached to this post.

Answer 3

I think that the navigation drawer it's the object that you search