Q:

Getting DrawerLayout to Slide over the ActionBar

I have  a sliding drawer menu in an activity, which has an actionbar with some tabs on it. 
I'd like to get the sliding drawer to slide over the tabs , not below them. 
This is what it looks like right now...

Any ideas on how this could be done?
Note: I understand that I might be breaking some conventions and UI patterns here, and if it does not work at all, I'll look at alternatives. But I'd like to get this working first.
EDIT: See the below screen shot of the Google Play Music app that does exactly what I need. See @CommonsWare's answer below where he does agree that I might be breaking convention. But then given the Play Music app, it may not be altogether that rare either. 

A:

you can use below libraries to get navigation model similar to Google play music app.

ActionBarSherlock  (github)
nested-fragments  (github)
PagerSlidingTabStrip  (github)
NavigationDrawer  (Android developer site)
Latest Support v4 library 

I have created a project Navigation Drawer with Tab Strip Example at github, have a look at it. 
Below is the screenshot of it.

A:

Any ideas on how this could be done?

Do any of the following:

Switch away from action bar tabs, perhaps to ViewPager and a tabbed indicator (PagerTabStrip, TabPageIndicator from ViewPageIndicator)
See if an existing third-party drawer implementation has not yet updated to the new UI standards
Fork DrawerLayout and modify it to suit
Roll your own navigation drawer from scratch

I understand that I might be breaking some conventions and UI patterns here

Correct.

A:

Check also this library http://www.androidviews.net/2013/04/pager-sliding-tabstrip/
The guy did a great job. You can use it with a navigation drawer and it works perfectly.

