“Bottom navigation” officially added to Material Design

What is Bottom Navigation?

Bottom navigation bars make it easy to explore and switch between top-level views in a single tap. – Material Design spec

Bottom navigation has now officially been added to Google’s Material Design guidelines, meaning you’ll likely start seeing more and more navigation bars being added to the bottom of your favorite apps rather than having different sections separated out into tabs at the top or in sections in the navigation drawer.

Google added the new bottom navigation rules to the Material Design guidelines. That is, the standard by which all Android developers are supposed to adhere if they want to be following the official design rules Google lays out for Android. Now, Google itself doesn’t even strictly follow the rules, and the same can be said of the bottom navigation bars in Google Photos and Google+.

In case you don’t know what “bottom navigation” means, it’s the presence of a navigation bar at the bottom of an app just above the on-screen navigation buttons. It’s designed to replace the need for tabbed sections at the top of an app or in the navigation drawer, arguably because it puts navigation closer to your fingertips. However, Google’s new guidelines allow for both tabs and bottom navigation as well as the hamburger menu.

Check out the full update and all the bottom bar goodness at the link below.

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• Material Design Spec