# Sidemenu On Top

DevFeed: [Sidemenu On Top](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/sidemenu-on-top-19516.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/sidemenu-on-top/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2017-05-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [dialog](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dialog.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [dialog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dialog.md>), [event](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/implementation.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes an in-development on-top side menu for a UI framework. The implementation moves the feature into the Toolbar class, uses an interaction dialog and pointer event listeners for drag-based expansion and collapse, and has known differences and limitations including possible positioning bugs, lack of shadow support, and lower performance.

## Source excerpt

This feature is still undergoing development but I wanted to share the progress here so we can start getting bug reports and suggestions. One of the frequent requests for the side menu UI is to provide a way for it to render on top of the UI instead of shift the UI. The old side menu was written when the facebook app was the chief application that used that UI paradigm so it was built to match that approach.