How To Make Node.Js Backend For Facebook Messenger Chat Bot

This is in continuation from the previous post How To Make Facebook Messenger Chat Bot With Api.ai, In the previous post we had created an Api.ai chat bot agent and hooked it up to Facebook Messenger which could converse and extract some parameters from the conversation according to our needs, In this section we are going to create a backend in Node.js which would take those parameters and query TheMovieDb database and provide response to our chat bot.

Requirements


1. Latest version on Node.js installed on your machine.
2. Chrome Extension Postman for testing (Optional).
3. Sublime text editor or any other works.
4. Git client installed for deploying our backend to cloud.


Understanding Request From API.AI

Connecting your Api.ai agent to your backend means having an intermediate webhook which would get a request from your agent whenever a intent is triggered. When intent is triggered Api.ai would send a request to our backend along with json of parameters it extracted from the conversation of you use the try it now console of Api.ai Agent we created then when an intent is triggered you can see a button at the bottom which says Show Json



,
By clicking on Show JSON you would be able to view the JSON format API.AI would be sending to our backend, so lets have a look at the format.

If you have a look you can see that from the above JSON you can extract the intent and parameter values from the results object

Within results you have a value named 

Action
- (Which gives you the intent)
Parameters - (JSON object which would provide you the parameter values required)

So our backend would get a request along with this data our backend would extract the values it needs and provide a response

Understanding The Response Required


We need to send the response for movie recommendation in the format as shown above, facebook provides different formats in which we can display data the above format which you see is called as a generic  template and our backend needs to define it in JSON format as described here on facebook messenger documentation page for generic templates

So when the request from API.AI would hit our backend it should perform following functions.

1 . Extract the parameters and Intent
2. Use the parameters value to query TheMovideDb 
3 .Get the response from TheMovieDb,
4. Create a JSON format for response using the response from Movie DB

So our final response which would be shown to have a view shown in messenger as shown above would look something as shown below.


Understanding TheMovieDb.org API 

Lets now have a look at TheMovieDb.org Api which we would be using to get movie recommendations. 

Step 1. First of all go to https://www.themoviedb.org and sign up for an account and login in, click on API in the side menu to get your secret key as shown in the below image

themoviedb api

Step 2. Now if you go the the API documentation for the TheMovieDb you could see there is one api available to fetch movie by genres, you can find documentation here https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/genres/get-movies-by-genre
themoviedb api example


https://api.themoviedb.org/3/genre/{genre_id}/movies?api_key=<<api_key>>&language=en-US&include_adult=false&sort_by=created_at.asc

As you can see this API requires you to provide the API key as a variable along with the genre ID for which you want to fetch the movie plus there are few query strings as shown above we wont bother about that now,

API Key - Its the key you got when you signed up.
Genres ID - Every genre has one ID associated with it which we have to send to this api when we query it for the movie. 

We can get the complete list of movie genres from the following URL

Add your API Key in the url and you would get a response as shown below.



we would use the above IDs in our Backend while sending the request to for movie recommendation.

Steps To Build Your Node.js Backend 

So now that we know our request and response format lets start building our backend in Node.Js

Step 1. Install Node.js from https://www.nodejs.org. After you have that installed you should create a new folder anywhere on your machine and name it "Node Projects", this is the parent folder in which we would be creating our projects.

Step 2. Now you need to install express framework for node as a global variable so you can access express commands from anywhere on you machine to do that run the following command.

$ npm install express --save

Step 3. Now open Node Projects folder and fire up command prompt (cmd) within that folder. You can do that by pressing shift key and left clicking inside the folder (Node Projects) and selecting open command window here on windows. Once you have the cmd open type in the following command.


$express MovieBot


We are using express command as we are going to use express framework for building our node app and we are specifing the name of the project as MovieBotThis will create a new folder in your Node Projects folder named MovieBot which would be a node app with express set up this is like starting point provided for you by express framework.

Step 4. Now run the following command

$ cd MovieBot && npm install
Here we are running two commands cd MovieBoti.e we are changing our directory to our newly created app directory. what npm install does is loads all the required dependencies for the project which the express app has defined in its package.json file. Dependencies are like libraries which our node app is using.

Step 5. At this point we have our initial set up ready and you can test if you have done everything write by running the following command.

$ npm start


If everything is done right you wont see any errors, Now without closing the command prompt open your browser and go to

(by default node.js runs on port 3000) now you would be able to see a web page saying 
welcome to express. 

node.js express app


Congratulations we have our initial set up, up and running properly. now we can thrown in our logic and start implementing our Restful backend.

Step 6. Now before we start I would like to explain few concepts in node.js and express framework and would like to let you know how the file structure is in express node app. If you open your folder MovieBot, You would see a following file stracture


node.js folder structure

Let me explain you the the important files with respect to this tutorial, First of all we have 

app.js - This file is like the main function of any program, It Handles the incoming requests and does appropriate routing to our routes

routes - Routes folder holds the JS files for different url requests, 

Lets say we have a base url www.example.com.
Now lets say this website has a blog at www.example.com/blog
It also has a contact page at www.example.com/contact

so blog and contacts are two routes of our base url and we can define what should happen when the request comes in for this routes in our routes folder by creating appropriate JS files and linking them to the route in the app.js

views - Routes files uses this views files to show in the content in HTML formatted web page, as we are building Restfull api and providing output in JSON we are not concerned about views in this tutorial

Rest of the folders are self explanatory.


Now if you open app.js you would see a file like this, Go through the comments of the file below to understand whats happening

Here we are interested in line no 8, 9 & 25, 26. Have a look at those lines here is what you would see.

First, we are creating a variable to access our routes created in our routes folder, Right now we have two routes in our routes folder viz. index.js and user.js .

Then we are defining which url would be handled by which route.

so on line 25 of app.js we are defining that all the requests to   "/" (root url) would be handled by index.js route which has be accessed in a variable routes.

and on line 26 we are defining that all the requests to "/users" url would be handled by user.js route.

now go ahead and visit http://localhost:3000/users, you would see a page saying "respond with resources" now /users url has been defined to be handled by users.js route so have a look at the users.js file now. you would see something like this.


Now lets understand whats happening here, First we have a function.
Function : router.get()
Parameters :
1. location/url - Which url would this get request would be handling
2. Request Handler function - function(req, res, next)
req -  holds the incoming request
res - Is used to provide response to the requests.

Now If you go ahead and add a new route in users.js as following 

Now if you go to http://localhost:3000/users/hello you would be able to see a web page saying "Hello World"

node.js route example

Note - Notice that you are going to http://localhost:3000/users/hello not http://localhost:3000/hello this is because you have defined the route in user.js file which we have have defined in app.js to handle the  http://localhost:3000/users url

we just created a route to handle a get request at a specific url. Similarly you can handle different requests with the router, which are

1. Get - router.get()
2. Post - router.post()
3. Delete - router.delete()
4. Update - router.update()

Now that we know about the structure and format lets start building our backend please have a look at the comments in the code for better understanding.


Step 7.  Open app.js and the lines at number 10 and 28. We have defined a new route webhooks and we have mapped it to the url /webhooks in relation to our base URL.


Step 8. Now open your your routes folder and add webhooks.js file as shown below this is where we are going to handle our API.AI incoming requests and provide a response. Read the comments for better understanding.



Now lets test our app locally, open cmd at your root folder of the express app we created and run the following command

$ npm start
Now to test our backend we need a chrome app called PostMan you can search and download it after you have downloaded it open up chrome browser and start postman

chrome postman example


Now select the request type as POST and type in the URL - www.localhost.com:3030/webhooks
In the body section copy paste the JSON we are expecting API.ai to send use when it triggers a movie recommendation.(This is for testing purpose)

Now hit send, if you get the appropriate response as shown below it means our backend is working appropriately

.post testing example

Congratulations, If you have got this working you have successfully built the backend for our Chat bot
Now we just have to upload our backend to a cloud hosting provider, I have decided to go with Heroku as it is easy to set up and has a great support

Uploading The Chat Bot To Heroku Cloud.

Step 1. Log on to Heroku and Sign up

Step 2. Log in and hit create a new app button

 

Step 3.   Hit Create App now you would be taken to the page as shown below follow the instructions on this page to deploy your backend to heroku
deploying node.js backend to heroku

Step 4. Download Heroku CLI (Heroku Command Line) and  Go to our backend MovieBot folder and open cmd at this location and follow the command as show in the image above

Step 5. Now If you have followed everything appropriately then you can go to post man as we did priviously but instead of checkin on local host now add in your heroku app url https://moviechatbot.herokuapp.com/webhooks and keeping all other things same hit send.


Now you can see the response would be provided as shown below.



This confirms our Heroku cloud is running our backend successfully.Now we just have to enable fulfillment option at our API.AI agent. 

Enabling Fulfillment in API.AI agent.

Step 1. Go To API.AI dashboard and click on fulfillment tab on the left hand side and enable the webhooks option as shown in the image below.



Leave the authentication part empty, as we are not covering that in this tutorial as it would be out of scope to explain that. hit save 

Step 2. Go to Intents section and click on the movie.recommendation intent we created, scroll down and enable

 
Hit save, Congratulations we have our Chat Bot ready, Go to your Facebook page and start a chat with the bot your bot would provide you recommendations as we had decided.

chat bot conversationchat bot conversation


Please comment below if you are facing any issue as well as let me know your thoughts about chat bots.


How To Make Facebook Messenger Chat Bot With Api.ai

Alright, Time has finally came where we have started moving from GUI to Conversational UI (CUI), We are moving into world where we would be conversing with technology as we would do with any other person, for Iron-Man fans, Yeah its right Jarvis is going to be a real thing soon enough and with this ability computing is going to be much easier and as app and smart phone ecosystem came and changed our life so will the conversational UI.

But understanding human speech has its own challenges, what we humans have learned and created over so many years about language and speech can not be tought to computers via some algorithm or formula it needs much more than that. It needs the computer to recognize patterns and create its own understanding and here is where machine learning comes to rescue you can Google more about it if you are interested.

But for us developers we don't need to teach our system the language because giants like Google and Facebook are here to help you out. Google provides service called Api.ai which helps you build conversational user experience.

What We Are Going To Build

We are going to build a Facebook messenger bot which would recommend you movie based on your genre preferences selection

This tutorial would be in two parts

Part 1 - Creating API.ai Agent and connecting it with Facebook Messenger

Part 2 - How to make a node.js backend for Facebook Messenger Chat Bot
(Connecting our bot to www.themoviedb.org api with Node.js backend for movie recommendation)

Getting Started With Api.ai 

Step 1. Sign up to api.ai and log into your account you would be presented with the dash board.

Step 2. Click on create a new agent, consider agents as your project engine which process language and spits out actions you define when language input matches the pattern you want.

Step 3. Name your agent now, I am naming my agent as "MovieBot", add a description and hit save button 




Understanding API.AI Agent

There are two important things that you need to understand about api,ai agents before we move any further, These are the two main components of the service.

1. Intents - Think of intents as actions you want your bot to send to you along with the parameters you want for ex. Our movie bot has only one action and that is to recommend movie, so the intention or the intent can be defined as movie.recommendation  

2. Entities - Entities are concepts that your bot should understand and using this concepts your bot would extract parameter values for your intents, our movie bot is going to recommend movies based on genre you wants so one concept that our bot needs to understand is genre so movie.genre would be one entity for our bot. similarly if we want our bot to recommend movie based on cast we would add movie.cast as one of the entity as well.


Creating Entities

Now as we know about entities lets start with adding one for our movie bot

1. Click on the entities tab on your dashboard
2. Then click on Create Entity button on top right
3. You would be on a page similar to shown in below screen shot.


Step 4. Fill the fields as shown in the above image, First lets name our entity movie-gener then in the space below add a row  and in it add some examples of movie geners as you can see in the screen shot. The left hand side is the parameter value that you want your bot to send to your backend and right hand side are the words or phrases that could map to those parameter value for example when your says "show me some funny movies" I want this to send me movie-gener parameter with the value of comedy, so in the left hand side I have named the parameter value and in right hand side I have mentioned some synonyms or phrases that should be used to map.

Step 5. After you have added your examples click on save, give it some time to save do not close the browser.With that we have the Entities part ready.

Creating Intent 

As we had discussed earlier we know that intents help us map user said phrases to developer defined actions or we can call it developer defined intents.

Step 1. Click on intent on dashboard and then hit create intents
Step 2. Name your intent, our intent is just one and that is movie recommendation, so I have named it movie.recommendation
Step 3. There are three sections to creating intents that are

A. User Says



Here you would add some example phrases that would trigger your movie intent, For movie recommendation a user might say something like "I  would like to watch a movie" which would trigger our Intent we are also going to handle the genre which a user could say something like "I would like to watch a horror movie" so all such phrases we would add in the user says section while you add those you can highlight a single word in a sentence and define which entity it matches if the agent it self doesn't understands the entities in the sentence you can read more on this from the offical documentation.

B. Action



Here you define what action would be triggered for your user says phrases, for us its our intent action it self so we have mentioned the action to be movie.recommendation along with this action we can see the list of parameters that have been extracted from our user says example phrases, from the list we can define if any parameter is absolutely required for our action by ticking the required box. As we need movie genre to be specified for us to provide the movie result we have marked it as required. But what if user says something like "I want to watch a movie" then we can not just leave the user blank as we dont have a gener to show him the movies. In such case bot will send the prompt question that you have set to extract the required parameter from user. So If user says "I want to watch a movie" our bot would reply with "From which gener do you want ?" and extract the required parameter.

C. Response


And finally when all is perfect and you have your required parameters here is where you define what the response text from the bot would be.

With this we have our conversational engine set up we can test it on Api.ai it self via the "Try it now" console.

Here is the screen shot of our bot in Try It Now console





As you can see It is working fine, We first hit the agent with the query "I would like to watch a movie" for which we receive the response "From which gener to do you want ?" as agent was not able to find the genre from the query . Then we enter "I think I am in mood of horror movies" and agent gives us the response "I think you would like the following movies"  with intent value of movie.recomendation and movie-gener parameter value set to Horror just as we had wanted.

With this we have our Converstional UI tested and ready to be integrated with Facebook Messanger Platform 


Integrating Api.ai Bot with Facebook Messenger

Now we need to connect the bot with Facebook messenger, For that we need to follow the following steps

Step 1. Log into Facebook Developer Console and create a new app as shown below.



Name your app with your agent name here, add your email id and select apps for messenger as the category then hit create App ID.


Step 2. Now you would be taken to a screen as shown below, you have to select a page for your messenger bot, if you dont have a page created you can create a new page and come back to this page, after selecting the page facebook will generate a Page Access Token for that page



Copy that Page access token and save it somewhere we would need it in the next step

Step 3. Now time to actually connect the page we created with the api,ai agent we made earlier for that go to api.ai dashboard of your agent and select integration as shown in the picture below.




Enable the Facebook Messenger toggle and click on setting.
In the settings panel enter the details as shown in the picture below

 .

Add a verify token which would help verify your bot identity to FB messenger keep it secret and do not share it. Paste the Page Access token that you had generated earlier here in page access token box, now copy the Callback URL which you would need in the next step.

Step 4. Now we need to configure Webhook go to the developer page on Facebook, In the products tabs go to messenger and click on set up webhooks, you would see a screen as shown below, Paste the Callback URL that you copied in last step and also enter the verify token you created previously, tick the messages and messages_postbacks check box and hit verify and save.



Step 5. Now its time to test the first phase of our bot, go to the page you created for your bot and try and send a messenger to the the page, If you have correctly followed the tutorial you would have your bot give you response as below.


So we have successfully created our Facebook bot which can handle basic conversations and extract out the parameters required to fulfill user requirement i.e movie recommendation.

In the next part we would connect this bot to movie API from TheMovieDb and thus provide user a movie recommendation as we had decided.

Here is the next part of this tutorial - How to make a node.js backend for Facebook Messenger Chat Bot






Tab Layout - Material Design Support Library Tutorial (Sliding Tabs)

With Material Design Support library out and available, Building great looking android apps have become easier for a developers. Today we are going to take a look at building Sliding Tabs in android. I have covered the development of sliding tabs before this library was available in another post which was a little tiresome job, with Material design support library integrating sliding tabs in your layout has now become a piece of cake.


Prerequisites

This tutorial is going to use a toolbar as action bar and if you aren't familiar with building toolbar then before starting out this tutorial please go through that my Toolbar tutorial. This is not absolutely necessary but I strongly recommend you do give it a read.

Secondly I have explained the working of sliding tabs in my previous post before this library was out. I recommend you to give that post a read as well, I don't want you to read the complete tutorial but just the part under
"Understanding The Sliding Tab Layout Implementation"

Requirements

1. Android Studio (latest version recommended)

2. Material Design Support Library (Add the dependency mention below)

compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0


Let Us Understand Sliding Tabs/ Tab Layout 




Material design support library provides a class called TabLayout which is basically a view class, required to be added into you layout for creating Sliding Tabs. Most of the times you are going to add this view below your toolbar because thats where you want your Tabs to be placed. Before staring out lets have a look at what we are trying to build up in this tutorial.


As you can see the tabs viz. Home, Inbox, Star are hold by Tab Layout which is placed right below the Toolbar, below the tab layout we have a view pager which is going to be linked with tab layout to achieve the desired effect.


Steps To Build Sliding Tabs With Tab Layout


1. Open Android studio and create a new blank project, after your project has been created go to the res->values folder and create a new file named color.xml. Add the following lines to that file, everything about those colors have been explained in my Toolbar tutorial. The property with name "indicator" is used to define the color of the indicator line below the tabs. which we will set appropriately to the indicator while we code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="PrimaryColor">#2196F3</color>
    <color name="PrimaryDarkColor">#1976D2</color>
    <color name="indicator">#ecd95a</color>

</resources>

2. Now we need to create a state list selector for the tabs text, this state list selector will define the text color of the tabs when they are selected and also define the default text color (When the tab is not the selected tab) So go to res folder and create a new folder named Color. Now create a new file inside this folder and name it tab_selector.xml and add the following lines to that file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
        <item android:state_selected="true" android:color="@android:color/white" />
        <item android:state_focused="true" android:color="@android:color/white" />
        <item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="@android:color/white" />
        <item android:color="#d1c9c9" />
</selector>

Here the lines which define the color of text when either selected, focused or pressed are as following

<item android:state_selected="true" android:color="@android:color/white" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:color="@android:color/white" />
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="@android:color/white" />

And the line below defines the default color for the text on tabs.

<item android:color="#d1c9c9" />

3. Now we need to define the style of our app for this project we are only going to define the color properties of our app, you can also define many other properties like text color, text type and font sizes and many more. To do that go to res->values->style.xml and add the following lines to your file. Again all this has been explained previously in my Toolbar tutorial.
<resources>
    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/PrimaryColor</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/PrimaryDarkColor</item>
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>
</resources>

4. Now time to set up out tabs in our layout go to res->layout->activity_main.xml and add the following lines of code in your file. All we are doing here is basically we are having a relative layout as our root view inside which we are adding Toolbar, below Toolbar we have our Tab Layout and below Tab Layout we have ViewPager. We are setting the background color of the tabs to the primary color which is blue. The same color has been setup for toolbar as well.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:background="#dfdfdf"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <include
        android:id="@+id/tool_bar"
        layout="@layout/toolbar"/>

    <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
        android:id="@+id/tabs"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@color/PrimaryColor"
        android:layout_below="@+id/tool_bar"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />

    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/viewpager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@+id/tabs"
        />

</RelativeLayout>


5. Now lets define how a single tabs content will look like, As you have seen we are not going to do anything fancy we are just having a simple text which says "Hello, This is a tab layout" which is placed in middle of the the screen. So go to res->layout and create a new layout name it tabs.xml and add the following lines of code to it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
        android:text="This is a tab layout"
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

6. Now we are pretty much done with the design part of the app so we can start coding it now. First of all we have added a view pager in the layout so we need to create a fragment which this view pager will hold. We are going to have three tabs but for ease of this tutorial I am only going to create one fragment which this view pager will hold and the same fragment will be shown when the tab changes. obviously you can create new fragment and add different content in them as per your requirement. We have already created the layout for the fragment (tabs.xml) now we need to code it so go to java->[package name] and create a new java class and name it TabFragment.java and add the following lines of code to that file.

package com.android4devs.slidingtabs;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

/**
 * Created by Admin on 11-12-2015.
 */
public class TabFragment extends Fragment {
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.tabs, container, false);
    }
}


7. Now as we have a view pager, we need to create an adapter for the view pager, So go to java->[package name] and create a new java class, name it ViewPagerAdapter.java and add the following lines of code to it. [Read the comments in the code bellow to understand whats happening]


package com.android4devs.slidingtabs;

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentStatePagerAdapter;

/**
 * Created by Admin on 11-12-2015.
 */
public class ViewPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {

    public ViewPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return new TabFragment();    // Which Fragment should be dislpayed by the viewpager for the given position
                                    // In my case we are showing up only one fragment in all the three tabs so we are
                                    // not worrying about the position and just returning the TabFragment
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 3;           // As there are only 3 Tabs
    }
   
}

8. Now we have everything in place to start coding our main activity, so go to java->[package-name]->MainActivity.java and add the following line of code to the file, [Read the comments in the file to understand whats happening]

package com.android4devs.slidingtabs;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.design.widget.TabLayout;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    //Declaring All The Variables Needed
    
    private Toolbar toolbar;
    private TabLayout tabLayout;
    private ViewPager viewPager;
    private ViewPagerAdapter viewPagerAdapter;


    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        
        /*
        Assigning view variables to thier respective view in xml
        by findViewByID method
         */
        
        toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tool_bar);
        tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tabs);
        viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewpager);

        /*
        Creating Adapter and setting that adapter to the viewPager
        setSupportActionBar method takes the toolbar and sets it as
        the default action bar thus making the toolbar work like a normal
        action bar.
         */
        viewPagerAdapter = new ViewPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
        viewPager.setAdapter(viewPagerAdapter);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        /*
        TabLayout.newTab() method creates a tab view, Now a Tab view is not the view 
        which is below the tabs, its the tab itself.
         */
        
        final TabLayout.Tab home = tabLayout.newTab();
        final TabLayout.Tab inbox = tabLayout.newTab();
        final TabLayout.Tab star = tabLayout.newTab();

        /*
        Setting Title text for our tabs respectively
         */
        
        home.setText("Home");
        inbox.setText("Inbox");
        star.setText("Star");

        /*
        Adding the tab view to our tablayout at appropriate positions
        As I want home at first position I am passing home and 0 as argument to 
        the tablayout and like wise for other tabs as well
         */
        tabLayout.addTab(home, 0);
        tabLayout.addTab(inbox, 1);
        tabLayout.addTab(star, 2);
        
        /*
        TabTextColor sets the color for the title of the tabs, passing a ColorStateList here makes
        tab change colors in different situations such as selected, active, inactive etc
        
        TabIndicatorColor sets the color for the indiactor below the tabs
         */
        
        tabLayout.setTabTextColors(ContextCompat.getColorStateList(this, R.color.tab_selector));
        tabLayout.setSelectedTabIndicatorColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.indicator));

        /*
        Adding a onPageChangeListener to the viewPager
        1st we add the PageChangeListener and pass a TabLayoutPageChangeListener so that Tabs Selection
        changes when a viewpager page changes.
         */
        
        viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new TabLayout.TabLayoutOnPageChangeListener(tabLayout));
        

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}



9. Now if you run the project you would have a working demo of sliding tabs as shown below.



10. Now many a times you wont be needing text on tabs but you would be needing icons in place of text, Well with the TabLayout thats very easy to add as well. So to get Icons instead of text first of all copy paste your icons into your projects drawable folder, I have downloaded 

ic_home_grey.png,
ic_inbox_grey.png
ic_star_grey.png 

ic_home_white.png
ic_inbox_white.png
ic_star_white.png

grey icon for non selected tab and white for selected tab. I copy pasted all 6 icons in my project

11. Now open up MainActivity and Replace the following line of code

home.setText("Home");
inbox.setText("Inbox");
star.setText("Star");

with the code below

home.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_home_white);
inbox.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_inbox_grey);
star.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_star_grey);

First Icon (Home) is set to white and rest to grey because by default home tab will be selected when app is going to open up.

12. Now I need to change the icons as soon as some other tab is selected by the user, for that we add a onPageListner to the ViewPager and in the method onPageSelected we change the icons appropriately. To do this open up your main activity and add the following code to it. So MainActivity.java for tabs with icon looks something like this.
package com.android4devs.slidingtabs;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.design.widget.TabLayout;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    //Declaring All The Variables Needed

    private Toolbar toolbar;
    private TabLayout tabLayout;
    private ViewPager viewPager;
    private ViewPagerAdapter viewPagerAdapter;


    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        /*
        Assigning view variables to thier respective view in xml
        by findViewByID method
         */

        toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tool_bar);
        tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tabs);
        viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewpager);

        /*
        Creating Adapter and setting that adapter to the viewPager
        setSupportActionBar method takes the toolbar and sets it as
        the default action bar thus making the toolbar work like a normal
        action bar.
         */
        viewPagerAdapter = new ViewPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
        viewPager.setAdapter(viewPagerAdapter);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        /*
        TabLayout.newTab() method creates a tab view, Now a Tab view is not the view
        which is below the tabs, its the tab itself.
         */

        final TabLayout.Tab home = tabLayout.newTab();
        final TabLayout.Tab inbox = tabLayout.newTab();
        final TabLayout.Tab star = tabLayout.newTab();

        //Setting Icons to our respective tabs

        home.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_home_white);
        inbox.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_inbox_grey);
        star.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_star_grey);

        /*
        Adding the tab view to our tablayout at appropriate positions
        As I want home at first position I am passing home and 0 as argument to
        the tablayout and like wise for other tabs as well
         */
        tabLayout.addTab(home, 0);
        tabLayout.addTab(inbox, 1);
        tabLayout.addTab(star, 2);

        /*
        TabTextColor sets the color for the title of the tabs, passing a ColorStateList here makes
        tab change colors in different situations such as selected, active, inactive etc

        TabIndicatorColor sets the color for the indiactor below the tabs
         */

        tabLayout.setTabTextColors(ContextCompat.getColorStateList(this, R.color.tab_selector));
        tabLayout.setSelectedTabIndicatorColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.indicator));

        /*
        Adding a onPageChangeListener to the viewPager
        1st we add the PageChangeListener and pass a TabLayoutPageChangeListener so that Tabs Selection
        changes when a viewpager page changes.
        
        2nd We add the onPageChangeListener to change the icon when the page changes in the view Pager
         */

        viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new TabLayout.TabLayoutOnPageChangeListener(tabLayout));
        viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onPageSelected(int position) {
                switch (position){
                    case 0:
                        /*
                        setting Home as White and rest grey
                        and like wise for all other positions 
                         */
                        home.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_home_white);
                        inbox.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_inbox_grey);
                        star.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_star_grey);
                        break;
                    case 1:
                        home.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_home_grey);
                        inbox.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_inbox_white);
                        star.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_star_grey);
                        break;
                    case 2:
                        home.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_home_grey);
                        inbox.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_inbox_grey);
                        star.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_star_white);
                        break;
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {

            }
        });

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}


13. Now If you run the app you would get your app running and it would look like this.



14. So with that we have a working sliding tabs demo with text as well as icons.

Bonus Tip

1. When creating your ViewPagerAdapter.java you can ovverride the getPageTitle(int Positon) method something like following

@Overridepublic CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
    switch (position){
        case 0:
            return "Home";
        case 1:
            return "Inbox";
        case 2:
            return "Star";
    }
    return "Default Text";
}

By doing so, your tabs would get title text from this method instead of setting them like

home.setText("Home");
inbox.setText("Inbox");
star.setText("Star");

2. Sometimes you might want to have icons and text or some other wired combination as your tab, well with the new library even thats possible, Lets say I want to have a Icon and TextView Below the icon and I want the TextView Bold well . So all I do is create a new layout file name it custom_view.xml add the following line of code to it

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView"
        android:layout_width="20dp"
        android:layout_height="20dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:textSize="16sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

</LinearLayout>


Now All I need to do is set this layout to the Tabs we created in the MainActivity.xml, lets say I want to set this layout as the tab view to the home tab so I remove setIcon() method and add a setCustomView() method to the tab and this layout gets added to the tab. Now ofcourse you need to inflate the view in a view object something like the following before you set the view to the tabs to have a appropriate icon and text set to all the tabs here is the part of the code you need to add in your main activity


        View HomeView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.coustom_view,null);
        ImageView iconHome = (ImageView) HomeView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        TextView textView = (TextView) HomeView.findViewById(R.id.textView2);
        iconHome.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_home_grey);
        textView.setText("Home");

        View InboxView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.coustom_view,null);
        ImageView iconIn = (ImageView) InboxView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        TextView textViewIn = (TextView) InboxView.findViewById(R.id.textView2);
        iconIn.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_inbox_grey);
        textViewIn.setText("Inbox");

        View StarView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.coustom_view,null);
        ImageView iconStar = (ImageView) StarView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        TextView textViewStar = (TextView) StarView.findViewById(R.id.textView2);
        iconStar.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_inbox_grey);
        textViewStar.setText("Star");

        home.setCustomView(HomeView);
        inbox.setCustomView(InboxView);
        star.setCustomView(StarView);

        tabLayout.addTab(home, 0);
        tabLayout.addTab(inbox, 1);
        tabLayout.addTab(star, 2);

If you run the app with the above changes here is the result you would get



So we have a icon and textview below it and a bold style to text view as we wanted, So that wraps the TabLayout in the Material design support library. 

 I dont know if you can call this as a tip but thats a option available while working with the TabLayout as a blogger providing tutorials I want reader to know all that I understand. Hope you like the tutorial, Subscribe to mail list and Keep Coding.

Navigation View - Material Design Support Library Tutorial

Few days back Google announced Material Design Support Library in their Google IO 2015, and today we are going to take a look at one of the component of the material design library and that's Navigation View,  Navigation View makes it very easy to make a good looking material design Navigation drawer, I have showed you how to make a navigation drawer before this library came out and it was pretty tiresome but with this library things have changed.  So Lets get started


Prerequisites

Tutorial is going to use a toolbar as action bar and if you aren't familiar with building toolbar then before starting out this tutorial please go through that my Toolbar tutorial. This is not absolutely necessary but I strongly recommend you do give it a read.

Requirements

1. Android Studio  1.3 (Version used for this tutorial)

2. Circle Image Library (Add the dependency mentioned below)

compile 'de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:1.3.0'

3. Material Design Support Library (Add the dependency mention below)

compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0

In my previous tutorial I have explained how the DrawerLayout works which will act as our root view in this tutorial so if you are not sure about its working just go and read that particular section from that tutorial, The link to that tutorial is here - 

Lets Understand Navigation View




Think of NavigationView as any other view you know, Navigation View has two main components which you can define according to your requirements those component are as show

Header View
This View is basically the top part of the navigation drawer, which holds the profile picture, name and email etc. You need to define this in a separate layout file we would look into that in just a moment.

 Menu
This is the menu you want to show below your header, we define menu in a menus folder, just like you define menu for your overflow menu.
So basically NavigationView is a container for the Header View and Menu which you are going to use in your sliding drawer. So now that you understand the NavigationView we can start building our Navigation Drawer.

So before we start building our app lets take a look at what we are trying to build, look at the gif below and you can see that we are going to make a sliding navigation drawer also on clicking inbox option you see we open the Inbox fragment inside the app, when you click any other option we show toast message indicating we have received the click event


Steps To Build Navigation Drawer With Navigation View


1. Open Android Studio and create a new blank project, Once your project is created go ahead and define Color scheme for your app. You do that by creating a file called colors.xml in res -> values  folder of your project. Now go ahead and add this lines to your color file again all about those colors and their usage explained in my Toolbar tutorial.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="PrimaryColor">#2196F3</color>
    <color name="PrimaryDarkColor">#1976D2</color>
</resources>


2.  Now we define style for our app, Go ahead and open the styles.xml file of your project located at res -> values folder . Add the following line to the styles.xml. We are setting the color scheme for the entire app notice we make our status bar color transparent. As to achieve the desired results.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/PrimaryColor</item>
        <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/PrimaryDarkColor</item>
        <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>
</resources>


3. Now lets first define how our header in the navigation drawer would look like, for this go ahead and create a new layout resource file in your layouts folder and name it header.xml. Add the following code to the file. Our header layout has Relative layout with three views inside it  one Circle Image View for the profile picture and two text views one for Name and other for email. I have added the Image named profile to my drawable folder to use it with Circle Image View.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="190dp"
    android:background="@drawable/background_material"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    >

    <de.hdodenhof.circleimageview.CircleImageView
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/profile_image"
    android:layout_width="76dp"
    android:layout_height="76dp"
    android:src="@drawable/profile"
    app:border_color="#FF000000"
    android:layout_marginLeft="24dp"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
    android:layout_marginStart="24dp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Akash Bangad"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:textColor="#FFF"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:paddingBottom="4dp"
        android:id="@+id/username"
        android:layout_above="@+id/email"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/profile_image"
        android:layout_alignStart="@+id/profile_image" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Akash.bangad93@gmail.com"
        android:id="@+id/email"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:textColor="#fff"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/username"
        android:layout_alignStart="@+id/username" />

</RelativeLayout>

4. Now with our header view done lets make our menu, for that go to res -> menu and create a new menu resource file and name it drawer.xml and add the following code to your file. Every menu option is enclosed withing <item> tag we have grouped them together with <group> tag setting  android:cheakableBehavour=”single” makes sure only one item can be selectable at once. Icon Tag indicate the icon we want the menu items to show besides them  I have downloaded my icons from 
www.google.com/design/icons and added them to my drawable folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <group android:checkableBehavior="single">

        <item
            android:id="@+id/inbox"
            android:checked="false"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_inbox_black"
            android:title="@string/inbox_string" />

        <item
            android:id="@+id/starred"
            android:checked="false"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_star_black"
            android:title="@string/starred_string" />

        <item
            android:id="@+id/sent_mail"
            android:checked="false"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_send_black"
            android:title="@string/sent_mail_string" />

        <item
            android:id="@+id/drafts"
            android:checked="false"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_drafts_black"
            android:title="@string/draft_string" />


        <item
            android:id="@+id/allmail"
            android:checked="false"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_email_black"
            android:title="@string/all_mail_string" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/trash"
            android:checked="false"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_delete_black"
            android:title="@string/trash_string" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/spam"
            android:checked="false"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_error_black"
            android:title="@string/spam_string" />

    </group>
</menu>

5. Now with our header and menu created we can start creating our main_activity.xml, so open up main_activity.xml  and add the following code inside it. As you can see we have our DrawerLayout root view and it has two child view, the first one represents the content of our app which is linear layout in my case I have added my toolbar and frameLayout inside the linear layout. Now the second child of our Drawer Layout is going to be the view which we want to act like a sliding drawer in our case its the Navigation View. Rhe following attributes help us link our drawer menu and header view to navigation view. Setting gravity start makes the view slide from left. Also notice that we have added
android:fitsSystemWindows="true" attribute to our drawerlayout to achieve the slide under transparent status bar effect.
app:headerLayout="@layout/header" 
app:menu="@menu/drawer"
android:layout_gravity="start"
rest of the code is self explanatory.

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/drawer"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        >
        <include
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            layout="@layout/tool_bar"
        />
        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@+id/frame"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

        </FrameLayout>

    </LinearLayout>

    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/header"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer"
        />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>


6. Now for the purpose of tutorial I am going to make a fragment and show you how to replace the fragment with the contents of your app when your menu item in drawer is selected so go ahead and create a layout for the fragment I have named mine content_fragment.xml. Add the following code to it (Just a TextView Inside a relative layout).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="INBOX"
        android:padding="8dp"
        android:textColor="#fff"
        android:background="@color/PrimaryColor"
        android:textSize="28sp"
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>



7.  Now go to Java->[app_package_name] and create a new class for your fragment name. I have named mine ContentFragment. Add the following lines of code. Code is pretty self explanatory, with that we have our fragment ready.
package com.android4dev.navigationview;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

/**
 * Created by Admin on 04-06-2015.
 */
public class ContentFragment extends Fragment {

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.content_fragment,container,false);
        return v;
    }
}


8. Now finally go to MainActivity.xml add Add the following code, I have added Comments to help you understand the code so make sure you read the comments.
package com.android4dev.navigationview;

import android.app.FragmentManager;
import android.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.support.design.widget.NavigationView;
import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.SubMenu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    //Defining Variables
    private Toolbar toolbar;
    private NavigationView navigationView;
    private DrawerLayout drawerLayout;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Initializing Toolbar and setting it as the actionbar
        toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
        
        //Initializing NavigationView
        navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation_view);
        
        //Setting Navigation View Item Selected Listener to handle the item click of the navigation menu
        navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(new NavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
            
            // This method will trigger on item Click of navigation menu
            @Override
            public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem menuItem) {

                
                //Checking if the item is in checked state or not, if not make it in checked state
                if(menuItem.isChecked()) menuItem.setChecked(false);
                else menuItem.setChecked(true);

                //Closing drawer on item click
                drawerLayout.closeDrawers();
                
                //Check to see which item was being clicked and perform appropriate action
                switch (menuItem.getItemId()){

                    
                    //Replacing the main content with ContentFragment Which is our Inbox View;
                    case R.id.inbox:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Inbox Selected",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        ContentFragment fragment = new ContentFragment();
                        android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
                        fragmentTransaction.replace(R.id.frame,fragment);
                        fragmentTransaction.commit();
                        return true;
                   
                    // For rest of the options we just show a toast on click
                    
                    case R.id.starred:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Stared Selected",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        return true;
                    case R.id.sent_mail:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Send Selected",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        return true;
                    case R.id.drafts:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Drafts Selected",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        return true;
                    case R.id.allmail:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"All Mail Selected",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        return true;
                    case R.id.trash:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Trash Selected",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        return true;
                    case R.id.spam:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Spam Selected",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        return true;
                    default:
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Somethings Wrong",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        return true;

                }
            }
        });

        // Initializing Drawer Layout and ActionBarToggle
        drawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer);
        ActionBarDrawerToggle actionBarDrawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(this,drawerLayout,toolbar,R.string.openDrawer, R.string.closeDrawer){

            @Override
            public void onDrawerClosed(View drawerView) {
                // Code here will be triggered once the drawer closes as we dont want anything to happen so we leave this blank
                super.onDrawerClosed(drawerView);
            }

            @Override
            public void onDrawerOpened(View drawerView) {
                // Code here will be triggered once the drawer open as we dont want anything to happen so we leave this blank

                super.onDrawerOpened(drawerView);
            }
        };

        //Setting the actionbarToggle to drawer layout
        drawerLayout.setDrawerListener(actionBarDrawerToggle);
        
        //calling sync state is necessay or else your hamburger icon wont show up
        actionBarDrawerToggle.syncState();






    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}


9. So with that we are done,  If you follow the tutorial properly and now if you run the app you would get the desired result as shown below.



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