41.10 Passing Data Using Safeargs

The next objective in this tutorial is to pass the text entered into the EditText view in the main fragment to the second fragment where it will be displayed on the TextView widget. As outlined in the previous chapter, the Android Navigation component supports two approaches to passing data. This chapter will make use of type safe argument passing.

The first step in using safeargs is to add the safeargs plugin to the Gradle build configuration. Using the Project tool window, locate and edit the project level build.gradle file (Gradle Scripts -> build.gradle (Project: NavigationDemo)) to add the plugin to the dependencies as follows (once again keeping in mind that a more recent version may now be available):

buildscript {

    

    repositories {

        google()

        jcenter()

    }

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