material-components / material-components/material-components-android

Feature Request - Add account header for NavigationView

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Description

Overview

While the Android Design library has a NavigationView component for navigation drawers, one thing that's still missing is the account header detailed in the official Material Design specification on navigation drawers.
Given it's frequent usage, I'd love to see an implementation of this that's optimized for the existing NavigationView and doesn't mess with internals as I did in my extension library.

Operating system and device

All operating systems and devices.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the NavigationView entry point and compare its current capabilities with the official Material Design navigation drawer specification and the linked extension library. Define the account-header behavior and integration boundaries, then verify that it works across the supported operating systems and devices without relying on NavigationView internals.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, java
Domain
design, mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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