BottomNavigation

Component in Material Compose

Material Design bottom navigation

Bottom navigation bars allow movement between primary destinations in an app.

Last updated: 2025-06-08 00:35

Installation

dependencies {
   implementation("androidx.compose.material:material:1.9.0-alpha04")
}

Overloads

@Composable
fun BottomNavigation(
    windowInsets: WindowInsets,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    backgroundColor: Color = MaterialTheme.colors.primarySurface,
    contentColor: Color = contentColorFor(backgroundColor),
    elevation: Dp = BottomNavigationDefaults.Elevation,
    content: @Composable RowScope.() -> Unit,
)

Parameters

name	description
windowInsets	a window insets that bottom navigation will respect.
modifier	optional [Modifier] for this BottomNavigation
backgroundColor	The background color for this BottomNavigation
contentColor	The preferred content color provided by this BottomNavigation to its children. Defaults to either the matching content color for [backgroundColor], or if [backgroundColor] is not a color from the theme, this will keep the same value set above this BottomNavigation.
elevation	elevation for this BottomNavigation
content	destinations inside this BottomNavigation, this should contain multiple [BottomNavigationItem]s

@Composable
fun BottomNavigation(
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    backgroundColor: Color = MaterialTheme.colors.primarySurface,
    contentColor: Color = contentColorFor(backgroundColor),
    elevation: Dp = BottomNavigationDefaults.Elevation,
    content: @Composable RowScope.() -> Unit,
)

Parameters

name	description
modifier	optional [Modifier] for this BottomNavigation
backgroundColor	The background color for this BottomNavigation
contentColor	The preferred content color provided by this BottomNavigation to its children. Defaults to either the matching content color for [backgroundColor], or if [backgroundColor] is not a color from the theme, this will keep the same value set above this BottomNavigation.
elevation	elevation for this BottomNavigation
content	destinations inside this BottomNavigation, this should contain multiple [BottomNavigationItem]s

Code Example

BottomNavigationSample

@Composable
fun BottomNavigationSample() {
    var selectedItem by remember { mutableStateOf(0) }
    val items = listOf("Songs", "Artists", "Playlists")

    BottomNavigation(windowInsets = BottomNavigationDefaults.windowInsets) {
        items.forEachIndexed { index, item ->
            BottomNavigationItem(
                icon = { Icon(Icons.Filled.Favorite, contentDescription = null) },
                label = { Text(item) },
                selected = selectedItem == index,
                onClick = { selectedItem = index },
            )
        }
    }
}