Summary

This chapter covered the most important navigation techniques you need to know about in order to create clear and consistent navigation in your apps. You started off by learning how to create an Android Studio project with a navigation drawer to connect navigation menu items to individual fragments using Jetpack navigation. You then progressed to actions within Jetpack navigation to navigate to other secondary destinations in your app within the navigation graph.

The next exercise then used bottom navigation to display primary navigation destinations that are always visible on the screen. We followed this by looking at tabbed navigation, where you learned how to display both fixed and scrollable tabs. For each navigational pattern, you were shown when it might be more suitable, depending on the type of app you were building. We finished this chapter by building our own app using one or more of these navigational patterns and adding both primary and secondary destinations...