Android navigation drawer: center menu vertically in NavigationView

Issue

I am using NavigationView from the android.support.design library. I want to make it's menu be vertically centered.

So, instead of the default alignement...

... I want it to look something like this:

From what I could see there are no layout attributes in NavigationViewthat would help me achieve this. I tried with android:foregroundGravity="center_vertical" but had no luck.

Does anybody know of a way to solve this without having to change NvigationView for a different layout?

Solution

It doesn't look like this is possible without creating a custom NavigationView.

However, because NavigationView is a SubClass of FrameLayout; you can add your own Views into it.

You could therefore not set menu items but add your own ListView (setting android:layout_gravity="center_vertical").

Obviously you would then need to implement a ListAdapter and cannot use OnNavigationItemSelectedListener which is not ideal.

Answered By - Robbie188