How do I hide the default logo space in Navigation Bar?

Question

Currently my navigation drawer is showing a default space before 'Settings and Privacy' item. I want to remove this space and make the text aligned to left.

How can I do this?

Here's my XML code:

<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_bookmarks"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_baseline_bookmarks_24"
        android:title="Bookmarks"
        />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_topics"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_baseline_topic_24"
        android:title="Topics"
        />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_lists"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_baseline_featured_play_list_24"
        android:title="Lists"
        />
</group>

    <group android:checkableBehavior="single">
        <item
            android:id="@+id/menu_settings"
            android:title="Settings and privacy"
            android:icon="@null"
            />

        <item
            android:id="@+id/menu_help"
            android:title="Help Centre"
            android:icon="@null"
            />
    </group>

Answer 1

Create 2 groups of item in your menu like this and divide them to icon and non icon

<group
android:id="@+id/menu_top"
<item>
</item>
<item>
</item>
</group>
<group
android:id="@+id/menu_bottom"
<item>
android:icon="@null"
</item>
<item>
android:icon="@null"
</item>
</group>

This should remove the space automatically since you have two groups of items

if that doesn't work use

int positionOfMenuItem =3; //the position of item you need to the left

MenuItem item = menu.getItem(positionOfMenuItem);

SpannableString s = new SpannableString(settingsItemTitle);

s.setSpan(new AlignmentSpan.Standard(Alignment.ALIGN_LEFT), 0, s.length(), 0);

item.setTitle(s);