I have been looking for about a day for a way to get my android application have tabs in the bottom of the screen.
On the Android Developer website in the Styles and
I wanted to post an update here. Bottom nav bars are now Android Canon. The main take-aways from this are:
1) Use bottom nav bars only for 3-5 icons. Any less, use tabs. Any more, use scrollable tabs (page down on that same link).
2) Avoid using a bottom nav bar and tabs together, and be sure the responsibilities of both are clearly separated if you do.
3) Bottom nav bars should be used for navigation not actions (use the ActionBar
for those)