[Tutorial] How to make Sidebar – Side Menu with [MIT AI2] and [AppToMarket]

[Boban Stojmenovic]

Simulate the Sidebar-Side Menu with the help of Screen 2 in MIT App Inventor 2 and AppToMarket.

You can see it in action on Youtube.

For tutorial details see here.

If you have any questions post them here.

[Toni Schuh]

Thx a lot for sharing this! :-)

Unfortunaly i don't have much time to test it the next days, but i surely put your tutorial into my favourites!

One thought on first sight: it would be nice to make the sidebar semi-transparent, do you think this is possible?

Thanks man!

[Jörg Hüneburg]

Yes, you can change the color of the arrangement to be transparent

[Boban Stojmenovic]

Yes it is possible,

Original.

Add alpha color to the buttons.

Removing dimmable in mycustomtheme.xml <item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">false</item> to <item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">true</item>

[Richard Nero]

Boban, 

This is great. Already using it in one of my app not as a side menu but for superimposing help menu on the screen. Very neat.

Thanks a lot 

[Jörg Hüneburg]

Yes, very good work Boban!
Richard, would you mind sharing what you have done? Would love to see it, sounds very interesting