Compose Navigator

Compose Navigator provides possibility to Control AndroidX NavController from View Model's.

The library facilitates the usage of a single NavHost controlled by one point of truth - Navigator. Provides a unified interface for providing results back between composables and receiving activity results.

Features

View Model's can use Navigator interface provided by navigation-runtime artifact to:

• navigate forward to route with optional NavOptions
• navigate backward
• provide result data to previous backstack entry
• launch and receive activity results using ActivityResultContract

Destination routes can be identified with String or Kotlin Serializable object used for Navigation Kotlin DSL Type-Safety.

Warning: library is designed to work with a single NavHost. Using nested NavHost is not tested and can cause unexpected behavior.

Setup

Compose Navigator is available via maven central.

1. Add dependency to to navigation-runtime

dependencies {
    implementation "com.miquido.android.navigation:navigation-runtime:[version]"
}

2. Choose dependency injection integration used in your project navigation-hilt or navigation-koin

dependencies {
    implementation "com.miquido.android.navigation:navigation-hilt:[version]"
    // OR
    implementation "com.miquido.android.navigation:navigation-koin:[version]"
}

Note: that for multi-module project add this dependency only in application module.

3. Pass NavController to NavigationHandler to start processing commands sent by Navigator in View Models.

import com.miquido.android.navigation.handler.NavigationHandler

@kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
data object RootRoute

@kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
data object StartRoute


@Composable
fun AppRoot() {
    // ...
    val navController = rememberNavController()

    NavigationHandler(
        navController = navController
    )

    NavHost(
        navController = navController,
        route = RootRoute::class, // or simple string "root"
        startDestination = StartRoute // or simple string "start"
    ) {
        // build your NavGraph
    }
}

4. Create View Model in composable using navEntryViewModel method.

import com.miquido.android.navigation.Navigator
import com.miquido.android.navigation.viewmodel.navEntryViewModel

@Composable
fun StartScreen(
    viewModel: StartViewModel = navEntryViewModel()
) {
}

Note: that all remaining dependency injection configuration (like using adding @HiltViewModel for Hilt or declaring module with viewModelOf for Koin) remains same as it was.

5. (Optional) Add integration with Compose Destinations

dependencies {
    implementation "com.miquido.android.navigation:navigation-destinations:[version]"
}

Using this artifact provides additional kotlin extension methods for:

• Navigator to avoid calling Direction#rote and Route#route when using provided API.
• NavAction's to allow object creation using Direction / Route directly.

Samples

The repository contains few samples - showcasing:

• koin integration sample-koin
• hilt integration sample-hilt
• TBD compose destination integration sample-destinations

About

The library contains a core feature set commonly used. Please do try it and open issues if you find any.

Any feedback and contributions are highly appreciated!

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