Jetpack Navigation
- This component handles the user-app journey. When the user navigates in the application, the user will go from one screen to another screen based on the complexity of the application.
- Earlier we used to use intents to move from screen to screen and the arguments to pass the data along with it, Now navigation makes it much simple.
- It uses the pattern where there is one activity and multiple fragments.
- It creates classes in the background and via calling functions, we can move from screen to screen.
- It handles complex cases like bottom tabbed navigation and App drawers, These navigation is handled in a seamless way and developers do not have to worry about it.
- Handles fragment transaction by avoiding inconsistencies and memory leaks
- Handles device back and up buttons
- Handles back-stack
- Handles argument passing
- takes care of transitions animations
- Easy way to implement deep-linking
- In the image above we can see that there is a representation of flow based on user actions.
- There is an
activity->This activity has a container for the fragment-> all the screen flows reside in this container - In the image above
title_screenand based on the user action there can be two possibilities of navigation and so on. - Here the important thing to note is
backstackandnavigationare taken care of by the library, no matter how complex the navigation hierarchy is, a developer can rely on the navigation library.
