48.2 Adding Navigation to the Build Configuration

A new Android Studio project does not, by default, include the Navigation component libraries in the build configuration files. Before performing any other tasks, therefore, the first step is to modify the app level build.gradle file. Locate this file in the project tool window (Gradle Scripts -> build.gradle (Module: NavigationDemo.app)), double-click on it to load it into the code editor and modify the dependencies section to add the navigation libraries. Also take this opportunity to enable view binding for this module:

android {

    buildFeatures {

        viewBinding true

    }

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dependencies {

    implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:2.3.5'

    implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:2.3.5'

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}

Note that newer...