when should we use NavigableListDetailPaneScaffold and when ListDetailPaneScaffold? both appears to ...

# compose

[Pablo]

when should we use NavigableListDetailPaneScaffold and when ListDetailPaneScaffold? both appears to be more or less the same, and I'm not sure what should we use. In theory, the first adds navigation, but I see that the second also uses it, so don't see the benefits or real differences

[Alex Vanyo]

NavigableListDetailPaneScaffold is part of the layered adaptive-navigation artifact, which indeed adds some basic navigation functionality with the navigator APIs.

The plain ListDetailPaneScaffold is part of a different layered adaptive-layout artifact, which expects something else to handle keeping the navigation-like state of the list and detail setup.

The main idea is that if you want an out-of-the-box navigator that is compatible with the list-detail setup, import the adaptive-navigation artifact, and then use the navigator APIs.

If you want to control the navigation yourself, then you can avoid importing adaptive-navigation at all, and then manually specify to the ListDetailPaneScaffold the state for what to show

[Alex Vanyo]

This blog goes into a bit more detail about the layering setup