# Navigation 3

Learn how to install and migrate to Jetpack Navigation 3, and how to implement features...

- Repository: https://github.com/android/skills (10219 stars)
- Category: Mobile
- License: Complete terms in LICENSE.txt
- Last updated: 2026-10-29
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## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add android/skills --skill navigation-3 -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add android/skills --skill navigation-3 -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add android/skills --skill navigation-3 -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add android/skills --skill navigation-3 -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add android/skills`

## Description

Learn how to install and migrate to Jetpack Navigation 3, and how to implement features and patterns such as deep links, multiple backstacks, scenes (dialogs, bottom sheets, list-detail, two-pane, supporting pane), conditional navigation (such as logged-in navigation versus anonymous), returning results from flows, integration with Hilt, ViewModel, Kotlin, and view interoperability.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

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## Migration guide

- *[Navigation 2 to Navigation 3 migration guide](references/android/guide/navigation/navigation-3/migration-guide.md)*: Step-by-step guide to migrate an Android application from Navigation 2 to Navigation 3, covering dependency updates, route changes, state management, and UI component replacements.

### Requirements

- *[Guide: Migrate to type-safe navigation in Compose](references/android/guide/navigation/type-safe-destinations.md)* : Step-by-step guide to migrating an Android application from string-based navigation to **Type-Safe Navigation** in Jetpack Compose using Jetpack Navigation 2.

## Developer documentation

- *[Navigation 3](references/android/guide/navigation/navigation-3/index.md)*. Search documentation for more information on basics, saving and managing navigation state, modularizing navigation code, creating custom layouts using Scenes, animating between destinations, or applying logic or wrappers to destinations.

## Recipes

Code examples showcasing common patterns.

### Basic API usage

- *[Basic](references/android/guide/navigation/navigation-3/recipes/basic.md)*: Shows most basic API usage.
- *[Saveable back stack](references/android/guide/navigation/navigation-3/recipes/basicsaveable.md)*: Shows basic API usage with a persistent back stack.
- *[Entry provider DSL](references/android/guide/navigation/navigation-3/recipes/basicdsl.md)*: Shows basic API usage using the entryProvider DSL.

### Common UI

- *[Common UI](references/android/guide/navigation/navigation-3/recipes/common-ui.md)*: Demonstrates how to implement a common navigation UI pattern with a bottom navigation bar and multiple back stacks, where each tab in the navigation bar has its own navigation history.

### Deep links

The rest: https://github.com/android/skills/blob/HEAD/navigation/navigation-3/SKILL.md