The Material Design squad at Google defines the functionality of a navigation drawer in Android as follows: The navigation drawer slides in from the left and contains the navigation destinations for your app. An example of a pop Android app that implements the navigation drawer menu design is the Inbox app from Google, which uses a navigation drawer to navigate different application sections. You can bank check it yourself past downloading the Inbox app from the Google Play store if you don't already take it on your device. The screenshot beneath shows Inbox with the navigation drawer pulled open. The user can view the navigation drawer when they swipe a finger from the left edge of the activity. They can besides find it from the dwelling action (the summit level of the app) by tapping the app icon (also known as the Android "hamburger" menu) in the activeness bar. ...