I've been searching around for a good navigation/router example for Flutter but I have not managed to find one.
What I want to achieve is very simple:
- Persistent bottom navigation bar that highlights the current top level route
- Named routes so I can navigate to any route from anywhere inside the app
- Navigator.pop should always take me to the previous view I was in
The official Flutter demo for BottomNavigationBar achieves 1 but back button and routing dont't work. Same problem with PageView and TabView. There are many other tutorials that achieve 2 and 3 by implementing MaterialApp routes but none of them seem to have a persistent navigation bar.
Are there any examples of a navigation system that would satisfy all these requirements?
What you are asking for would violate the material design specification.
On Android, the Back button does not navigate between bottom
navigation bar views.
A navigation drawer would give you 2 and 3, but not 1. It depends on what's more important to you.
You could try using LocalHistoryRoute. This achieves the effect you want:
class MainPage extends StatefulWidget {
@override
State createState() {
return new MainPageState();
}
}
class MainPageState extends State<MainPage> {
int _currentIndex = 0;
List<int> _history = [0];
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new Scaffold(
appBar: new AppBar(
title: new Text('Bottom Nav Back'),
),
body: new Center(
child: new Text('Page $_currentIndex'),
),
bottomNavigationBar: new BottomNavigationBar(
currentIndex: _currentIndex,
items: <BottomNavigationBarItem>[
new BottomNavigationBarItem(
icon: new Icon(Icons.touch_app),
title: new Text('keypad'),
),
new BottomNavigationBarItem(
icon: new Icon(Icons.assessment),
title: new Text('chart'),
),
new BottomNavigationBarItem(
icon: new Icon(Icons.cloud),
title: new Text('weather'),
),
],
onTap: (int index) {
_history.add(index);
setState(() => _currentIndex = index);
Navigator.push(context, new BottomNavigationRoute()).then((x) {
_history.removeLast();
setState(() => _currentIndex = _history.last);
});
},
),
);
}
}
class BottomNavigationRoute extends LocalHistoryRoute<void> {}
CupertinoTabBar behave exactly same as you described, but in iOS style. It can be used in MaterialApps
however.
Sample Code