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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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41.7 Adding an Action to the Navigation Graph

Now that the two destinations have been added to the graph and the corresponding user interface layouts designed, the project now needs a way for the user to navigate from the main fragment to the second fragment. This will be achieved by adding an action to the graph which can then be referenced from within the app code.

To establish an action connection with the main fragment as the origin and second fragment as the destination, open the navigation graph and hover the mouse pointer over the vertical center of the right-hand edge of the mainFragment destination so that a circle appears as highlighted in Figure 41-12:

Figure 41-12

Click within the circle and drag the resulting line to the secondFragment destination:

Figure 41-13

Release the line to establish the action connection between the origin and destination at which point the line will change into an arrow as shown in Figure 41-14:

Figure 41-14

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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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