Getting DrawerLayout to Slide over the ActionBar

Question

I have a sliding drawer menu in an activity, which has an actionbar with some tabs on it.

I'd like to get the sliding drawer to slide over the tabs , not below them.

This is what it looks like right now...

Any ideas on how this could be done?

Note: I understand that I might be breaking some conventions and UI patterns here, and if it does not work at all, I'll look at alternatives. But I'd like to get this working first.

EDIT: See the below screen shot of the Google Play Music app that does exactly what I need. See @CommonsWare's answer below where he does agree that I might be breaking convention. But then given the Play Music app, it may not be altogether that rare either.

Answer 1

you can use below libraries to get navigation model similar to Google play music app.

• ActionBarSherlock (github)
• nested-fragments (github)
• PagerSlidingTabStrip (github)
• NavigationDrawer (Android developer site)
• Latest Support v4 library

I have created a project Navigation Drawer with Tab Strip Example at github, have a look at it.

Below is the screenshot of it.