feat(sidenav): add swipe functionality

[Urigo]

Add the same swipe functionality behavior as ion-side-menus to open sidenav not just with click but with swipe left (or right)

Awesome work!

[gkalpak]

@ThomasBurleson: Same story here :) What does closing this ticket mean ?

[plato-cambrian]

+1

[EladBezalel]

as @gkalpak said, What does closing this ticket mean? still there's no support.

[ThomasBurleson]

@EladBezalel, @gkalpak - I cannot recall the reason why this was closed (and I obviously did not provide a comment). I will reopen until the pending Gestures features are pushed to master.

[gustavohenke]

@ThomasBurleson I've been using md-swipe-right="$mdSidenav( 'sidenav' ).open()" (and the opposite) with no problems at all.
What I did can be considered an workaround?

[EladBezalel]

Its workaround but you would expect it to react with your finger..
Also i don't want to put md-swipe-right="$mdSidenav( 'sidenav' ).open() on my body or container div

[atentis]

+1

It would be fantastic if the swipe functionality could be added to close the side menu!

Thanks!

[Splaktar]

@ThomasBurleson This is scheduled for 0.5 but is still open. Should this be rescheduled to 0.9.0 or 0.10.0?

[mathiasmoeller]

+1

[nikopolv]

We really need this. +1

[asoseil]

+1

[atentis]

@ThomasBurleson @ajoslin Will this be in 0.9?

[marco-silva0000]

what is the status of this?

[EladBezalel]

This issue has been deprecated, although we do have an effort improving our gestures service with hammer.js, after that will go in we can easily enough make sidenav with dragging support.

[amritk]

If anyone wants to do one themselves without hammer.js you can check out this vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhnj3PiPnZw

[seb777]

@marekmicek +1

[Splaktar]

This feature has been a very hot request from the community for years now. However, we've never (to my knowledge) had a community PR to add this functionality. I am reopening this so that the community knows that we would welcome a quality PR that adds this functionality. While you can't just copy #6174, you could review it for some of the issues already encountered.

Note that there are no plans at this time for the AngularJS Material team to implement this feature.

[chenlijun99]

@Splaktar Must we use $mdGesture to implement this functionality?
I'm trying the implement this with $mdGesture but I encountered some problems.
See #11204

[Splaktar]

@Free-Easy That would be the preferred approach as introducing something like hammerjs at this point is probably not a good idea. Thanks for opening that issue.

[Splaktar]

Oh, it does look like we have an issue open to move over to hammerjs and get rid of $mdGesture. However, I'm not sure that will ever happen.