How to add custom views in the new NavigationView

The new support library 23.1

allows using a custom view for the items in Navigation View using app:actionLayout or using MenuItemCompat.setActionView().

Here’s how I managed to display a SwitchCompat

menu_nav.xml

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

    <group
        android:id="@+id/first"
        android:checkableBehavior="single">

        <item
            android:id="@+id/navi_item_1"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_feed_grey_500_24dp"
            android:title="Feed" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/navi_item_2"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_explore_grey_500_24dp"
            android:title="Explore" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/navi_item_4"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_settings_grey_500_24dp"
            android:title="Settings" />

    </group>
    <group
        android:id="@+id/second"
        android:checkableBehavior="single">
        <item xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
            android:id="@+id/navi_item_create_notifications_sound"
            android:title="Notifications Sounds"
            app:actionLayout="@layout/menu_swich"
            app:showAsAction="always" />

    </group>
</menu>

menu_switch.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="right|center_vertical"
    app:buttonTint="@color/colorPrimary"
    app:switchPadding="@dimen/spacing_small" />

To get the View and assign events to it, you should do :

SwitchCompat item = (SwitchCompat) navigationView.getMenu().getItem(3).getActionView();
        item.setOnCheckedChangeListener( new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener(){
            @Override public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
                Logr.v(LOG_TAG, "onCheckedChanged" + isChecked);
            }
        });