Navigation Component, feedback from the trench

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Practical report on adopting Navigation Component: a real app with 66 screens exposes where it helps and where it trips up. Shows the concrete flow manager pattern used to centralise routing and unit-test navigation, details on handling conditional next actions, multi‑start destinations, and preserving tab state with the multi‑backstack hack. Notes that the library is alpha, lists required workarounds for bottom navigation and multi‑module graphs, and demonstrates which parts actually simplified maintenance versus which broke on rotation or needed custom navigators.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:39IP ID
3. 1:59Navigation Components
4. 3:03Basic Example
5. 7:10Navigation Graph
6. 11:02Context
7. 14:39Testing
8. 15:16Linear Flow
9. 17:04Flow
10. 22:00Login Flow
11. 29:05Bottom Navigation
12. 33:53Hack

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