Chapter 5. Creating Rich Navigation with Fragments

This chapter demonstrates the role of fragments in creating a rich user interface navigation experience.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • Swipe navigation
  • The role of the Android action bar
  • The close relationship between the action bar and fragments
  • Associating menus with fragments
  • List navigation
  • Tab navigation

By the end of this chapter, we will be able to implement solutions that utilize fragments to provide rich user navigation, including swipe navigation, tab navigation, and drop-down list navigation.

A brave new world

As we've seen, fragments provide us with the ability to closely control and manage our application user interface. Through the use of the FragmentTransaction class we ...

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