What’s New in Navigation 2020
Posted by Jeremy Woods, Software Engineer, Android UI Toolkit The latest versions of the Jetpack Navigation library (2.2.0 and 2.3.0) added a lot of requested features and functionality, including dynamic navigation , navigation back stack entries , a library for navigation testing , additional features for deep linking , and more. Let’s go over the most important changes, see what problems they solve, and learn how to use them! Dynamic Navigation We’ve updated Navigation to simplify adding dynamic feature modules for your application. Previously, implementing navigation between destinations defined in dynamic feature modules required a lot of work. Before you could navigate to the first dynamic destination, you needed to add the Play Core library and the Split Install API to your app. You also needed to check for and download the dynamic module. Once downloaded, you could then finally navigate to the destination. On top of this, if you wanted to have an on-screen progress bar for th...