title: How to get icons in my Android image drawer?
body: <p>I just created a drawer in my Android app, and now I want to include icons next to each menu item. For this I created a list_item_drawer.xml file, which looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;LinearLayout
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:orientation="horizontal"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent"&gt;
  
      &lt;TextView
          android:id="@+id/text_drawer_menu_item"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:textSize="23dp"
          android:text="Menu item"
          /&gt;
  
      &lt;ImageView
          android:id="@+id/image_drawermenu_icon"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
          android:src="@drawable/placeholder"/&gt;
  
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then call this file in my MainActivity like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>final String[] menuEntries = {"Overview","New Payment"};
  final String[] fragments = {
          "com.mycompany.fragment.OverviewFragment",
          "com.mycompany.fragment.DetailsFragment",
  };
  private ActionBarDrawerToggle drawerToggle;
  
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.drawer_root);
      ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt; adapter = new ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt;(this, R.layout.list_item_drawer, R.id.text_drawer_menu_item, menuEntries);
  
      etc..
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The weird thing is, that even though each menu item now has the height of that placeholder image file, I do not see the image file displayed. So my first question: <strong>how do I get the image file to display?</strong></p>
  
  <p>But even if that image file is displayed, I wonder (question two), <strong>how do I set a unique icon for each menu item?</strong></p>
  
  <p>All tips are welcome!</p>