October 2019
Beginner
528 pages
12h 37m
English
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8Creating an App's Navigation
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER
- How to use the
Navigatorwidget to navigate between pages - How hero animation allows a widget transition to fly into place from one page to another
- How to display a horizontal list of
BottomNavigationBarItems containing aniconand atitleat the bottom of the page - How to enhance the look of a bottom navigation bar with the
BottomAppBarwidget, which allows enabling a notch - How to display a horizontal row of tabs with
TabBar - How to use
TabBarViewin conjunction withTabBarto display the page of the selected tab - How
Drawerallows the user to slide a panel from left or right - How to use the
ListViewconstructor to build a short list of items quickly - How to use the
ListViewconstructor with theDrawerwidget to show a menu list
In this chapter, you'll learn that navigation is a major component in a mobile application. Good navigation creates a great user experience (UX) by making it easy to access information. For example, imagine making a journal entry, and when trying to select a tag, it's not available, so you need to create a new one. Do you close the entry and go to Settings ➪ Tags to add a new one? That would be clunky. Instead, the user needs the ability to add a new tag on the fly and appropriately navigate to select or add a tag from their current position. When designing an app, always keep in mind how the user would navigate to different parts of the app with the least number of taps.
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