This is a repost of an answer I wrote on Stack Overflow.
My original article dealt with the BottomNavigationView, but now there is a BottomAppBar. I added a section at the top for that with an implementation link.
Bottom App Bar
The BottomAppBar supports a Floating Action Button.
Image from here. See the documentation and this tutorial for help setting up the BottomAppBar.
Bottom Navigation View
The BottomNavigationView is an alternative place to put actions and navigation buttons from the top toolbar. The following full example shows how to make a Bottom Navigation Bar like the image below.
Add the design support library
Add this line to your app’s build.grade file next to the other support library things.
implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0'Update: The line above uses the old support library. You should use androidx now. Sorry, I’ve moved on to developing Android apps with Flutter now, so I haven’t been able to…
