NavigationUI

Implementation Step-by-Step

Step1: Take a new project and Refactor your app to support androidx as shown below:

Step2: Add Navigation Architecture Component suppporting dependency in your app level Gradle:

def nav_version = "1.0.0-alpha06"

// Navigation components
implementation "android.arch.navigation:navigation-fragment:$nav_version"
implementation "android.arch.navigation:navigation-ui:$nav_version"

Step3: Add navigatiion to your project:

1. Click File > Settings (Android Studio > Preferences on Mac), select the Experimental category in the left pane, check Enable Navigation Editor, and then restart Android Studio.

2. In the Project window, right-click on the res directory and select New > Android Resource File. The New Resource File dialog appears.

3. Type a name in the File name field, such as "nav_graph".

4. Select Navigation from the Resource type drop-down list.

5. Click OK. The following occurs:

• A navigation resource directory is created within the res directory.
• A nav_graph.xml file is created within the navigation directory.
• The nav_graph.xml file opens in the Navigation Editor. This xml file contains your navigation graph.

6. Click the Text tab to toggle to the XML text view. The XML for an empty navigation graph looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<navigation xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
 ...
</navigation>

7. Click Design to return to the Navigation Editor.

Step4: Design your Fragments and your navigation should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<navigation xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/nav_graph"
    app:startDestination="@id/defaultFragment">

    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/firstFragment"
        android:name="com.example.umangburman.navdrawerwithnavcomponent.FirstFragment"
        android:label="First Fragment"
        tools:layout="@layout/first_fragment" />
    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/secondFragment"
        android:name="com.example.umangburman.navdrawerwithnavcomponent.SecondFragment"
        android:label="Second Fragment"
        tools:layout="@layout/second_fragment" />
    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/thirdFragment"
        android:name="com.example.umangburman.navdrawerwithnavcomponent.ThirdFragment"
        android:label="Third Fragment"
        tools:layout="@layout/third_fragment" />
    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/defaultFragment"
        android:name="com.example.umangburman.navdrawerwithnavcomponent.DefaultFragment"
        android:label="Default Fragment"
        tools:layout="@layout/default_fragment" >
    </fragment>

</navigation>

Result

Developed By

• Lucas Lima
• 📧 e-mail: [email protected]

License

Copyright 2018 Lucas Lima

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