Add a small tab on left drawer

Question

I am new to android dev. I have a problem of adding a small tab on my left drawer. Because it may be hard for user to detect that I have a left drawer so I want to add a tab to let people notice. Here's the screenshot of my app.enter image description here I hope it can have a small tab like this Can you give me some hint to start?

Answer 1

You can just put a view on the left of your layout using relative layout and on click of that view you can just open the drawer by calling:

mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(Gravity.START)

This will open the drawer in the same way it open when action bar icon is clicked.