Apologies for a probably off-topic question, but can anyone please point me towards the best practic...

# android

[Igor Milakovic]

Apologies for a probably off-topic question, but can anyone please point me towards the best practices for navigation in Android?

Specifically, I'm wondering whether I should use the Navigation component or not.

Also, my understanding is that Fragments are preferred over activities. So when I want to push (sorry, coming from iOS development! 🙂) a new screen, should I start a new Intent and host my NewScreenFragment in the NewActivity? Or is it better to just replace the CurrentScreenFragment with NewScreenFragment (and add it to back stack) in the CurrentActivity and then adjust the action bar (back button, menus etc)?

Finally, to top it all off, I want to apply the coordinator pattern on all that so I don't tight couple the flows within Activities/Fragments.

Thank you very much in advance!

[Umar Ata]

Navigation is added in Android studio template
So create a new project and select Basic activity
It will show a flow of two fragments with latest navigation components in Android

[Umar Ata]

You can refer to this codelab
https://developer.android.com/codelabs/basic-android-kotlin-training-navigation-backstack?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.android.com%2Fcourses%2Fpathways%2Fandroid-basics-kotlin-unit-3-pathway-4%23codelab-https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.android.com%2Fcodelabs%2Fbasic-android-kotlin-training-navigation-backstack#0

[Igor Milakovic]

Oh! That's a great idea, I'll do that. Thank you very much for the link as well!