A small and simple, yet fully fledged and customizable navigation library for Jetpack Compose:

• Full type-safety
• State restoration
• Nested navigation with independent backstacks
• Easy integration with BottomNavigation and TabRow
• Own lifecycle, saved state and view models for every backstack entry
• Animated transitions
• Navigation logic may be easily moved to the ViewModel layer
• No builders, no obligatory superclasses for your composables

Quick start

Add a single dependency to your project:

implementation("dev.olshevski.navigation:reimagined:1.1.0")

Define a set of screens. It is convenient to use a sealed class for this:

sealed class Screen : Parcelable {

    @Parcelize
    object First : Screen()

    @Parcelize
    data class Second(val id: Int) : Screen()

    @Parcelize
    data class Third(val text: String) : Screen()

}

Create a composable with NavController, NavBackHandler and NavHost:

@Composable
fun NavHostScreen() {
    val navController = rememberNavController<Screen>(
        startDestination = Screen.First
    )

    NavBackHandler(navController)

    NavHost(navController) { screen ->
        when (screen) {
            Screen.First -> Column {
                Text("First screen")
                Button(onClick = {
                    navController.navigate(Screen.Second(id = 42))
                }) {
                    Text("To Second screen")
                }
            }

            is Screen.Second -> Column {
                Text("Second screen: ${screen.id}")
                Button(onClick = {
                    navController.navigate(Screen.Third(text = "Hello"))
                }) {
                    Text("To Third screen")
                }
            }

            is Screen.Third -> {
                Text("Third screen: ${screen.text}")
            }
        }
    }
}

As you can see, NavController is used for switching between screens, NavBackHandler handles back presses and NavHost provides a composable corresponding to the last destination in the backstack. As simple as that.

Documentation

Full documentation is available here.

Sample

Explore the sample. It demonstrates:

• nested navigation
• BottomNavigation
• NavHost/AnimatedNavHost usage
• passing values and returning results
• dialog navigation
• entry-scoped ViewModels
• usage of NavController within the ViewModel layer
• deeplinks

About

I've been thinking about Android app architecture and navigation in particular for the longest time. After being introduced to Compose I could finally create the navigation structure that satisfies all my needs perfectly.

I hope it can help you as well.

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