show NavigationView MenuItems holo indicator programmatically

Issue

I have a navigation view that I populate dynamically according to the response I get from an API request. So I have to do most of the menu items design programmatically.

My aim is to add the indicator (yellow vertical strip) in left side when a menu item is checked, as in this picture:

Here is my code up to now:

.xml

<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:itemIconTint="@drawable/drawer_item"
    app:itemTextColor="@drawable/drawer_item"
    app:itemBackground="@drawable/background_item"/>

.java

for (SettingsMenuItem item : items) {

                if (!item.getMenu().isEmpty()) {

                        span = new SpannableString(subItem.getTitle());
                        span.setSpan(new AlignmentSpan.Standard(Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER), 0, span.length(), 0);

                        menu.add(NONE,NONE, items.indexOf(subItem), span).setCheckable(true).setChecked(false);;
                    }
}
        menu.getItem(selectedItemID).setChecked(true);

Solution

Try creating custom view for yellow vertical strip like

<View
    android:layout_width="5dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/yellow"/>

and set gravity to parent left. Also maintain the status of clicked menu somewhere in SharedPreference so as to restore the state of clicked menu.

Answered By - Nikhil Lotke