Flow is a small library that helps with describing an app as a collection of moderately independent screens. These screens can be pushed onto a concrete backstack to provide navigation history.

A screen describes a distinct state of an application. It contains enough information to bootstrap the view.

@Layout(R.layout.track)
public class TrackScreen implements HasParent<AlbumScreen> {
  public final int albumId;
  public final int trackId;

  @Override public AlbumScreen getParent() {
    return new AlbumScreen(albumId);
  }

  public TrackScreen(int albumId, int trackId) {
    this.albumId = albumId;
    this.trackId = trackId;
  }
}

The HasParent interface is used to support the up notion used in Android.

The backstack is the history of screens, with the head being the current or last-most screen.

The flow holds the current truth about your application, the history of screens. It can be told to transition to another screen by simply instantiating the screen you want to go to.

flow.goTo(new TrackScreen(albumId, trackId));

Download the latest JAR or grab via Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.squareup.flow</groupId>
    <artifactId>flow</artifactId>
    <version>(insert latest version)</version>
</dependency>

or Gradle:

compile 'com.squareup.flow:flow:(latest version)'

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