hello, Gabriele!

how can I help you today?

hi Mark :)

the last time, I told you I wanted to add two navigation drawer to my app, I was sure I could do the same for the drawertoogle and I've found a lot of questions on google on how to add a second drawertoggle (one to the left and one to the right) and... I couldn't find an answer! While waiting I've added a button on the action bar, to open the one on the right, but maybe you know something about this

I have not looked into setting up a right-hand drawer much

in particular, I have not looked into any sort of toggle

I would be somewhat surprised if ActionBarDrawerToggle worked for it

it seems that actionbardrawertoggle is related to the "drawer", but there is no way to specify which one (e.g. by gravity)

(if I understand corretcly, by googling)

that's because it is designed to set up the "mini-hamburger" next to the app icon

and so I expect that it's only set up for the left side

(where, here, by "left" and "right" I mean for LTR languages, of course...)

you can have it on the right, from what I've seen

but you can't have two of them

that may not be ActionBarDrawerToggle, though

(maybe I'm wrong)

ah, yes, you're right

now I've seen that they used a "trick"

switching to android:supportsRtl="true"

so maybe in this case, you have it to the right

that should only have it on the right for RTL languages

it should, but this is the only answer I've found. Anyway, as you can't have two (and you can't have it on right), is it a bad idea to add it on the actions?

I haven't used an app that has had a drawer on the right, and so I don't know what is normally used as a trigger for opening it beyond a bezel swipe

I'm always referring to google plus app and they have a "bell", which shows the counter of notifications and you can tap it, to open the right drawer

well, there are worse apps to pattern yourself against :-)

eheh

I'm just trying, I'm not even sure to use the second navigation drawer, maybe it's terrible

I don't find it to be an especially common pattern

which is why you probably do want some trigger other than a bezel swipe

as otherwise people might not know the drawer is there

(not to mention that we're overloading horizontal swipe gestures nowadays...)

yes, this is true, too and I don't want to overstate

by the way, how to put a "counter" inside an actionbar button? I should reload it with a new image?

I know there are recipes for applying a badge to an action bar item...

that question has several answers of various approaches

but the key term is "badge", as that's the term for applying a counter in a bubble over the corner of some icon

oh, thank you, I will read it

I didn't know how to search it

and about PagerTabStrip, it seems, but maybe I'm wrong, there is no way to change color, or highlight in some way on of the tab (of your choice), should I extend it, to obtain something like this?

you can probably affect it via a custom style

if not, look into something more flexible, like TabPagerIndicator from the ViewPagerIndicator library

or PagerSlidingTabStrip

or other open source implementations

maybe I've not explained it well, I mean dynamic changing the color of a tab

e.g. when a user receives a message private from B, I'd like B's tab to highlight, change color or something

if I do it by layout, it would be static, right?

sorry, I have not looked into how to do that

oh, no problem :)

ok Mark, thank you... as always :)

you are welcome

have a good evening (if it's evening, to you)

:)