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Android Bottom Navigation Bar With Jetpack Compose

Siva Ganesh Kantamani
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5 min readJun 16, 2021

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In this article, we’re going to learn how to display a bottom navigation bar with Jetpack Compose. We’ll also learn how to maintain the back stack, behavior of the bottom bar with the back stack, and more. I’ll give you the GitHub link at the end of the article — feel free to play with it.

Introduction

Jetpack Compose is one of the recent attempts from Google to make it easy for Android developers to build UI.

“Jetpack Compose is a modern toolkit for building native Android UI. Jetpack Compose simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs.” — Android Developers

Jetpack Compose recently moved to beta. This means there will no longer be any drastic changes in the API structure, so it would be a great time to learn how to work with this next-generation UI kit for Android development.

You will need to install Android Studio Canary, Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) version to use the Jetpack Compose beta.

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