Introducing Nibel: A Navigation Library for Adopting Jetpack Compose in Fragment-Based Apps | by Pavlo Stavytskyi | Turo Engineering | Medium
Article Summary
Turo open-sourced Nibel, their solution to the messy problem of migrating fragment-based Android apps to Jetpack Compose without breaking everything.
Most Android teams face a painful choice: rewrite everything for Compose or stay stuck with fragments. Turo's engineering team built Nibel, a type-safe navigation library that lets you adopt Compose incrementally while maintaining compatibility with existing fragment-based code.
Key Takeaways
- Enables three navigation scenarios: fragment to compose, compose to compose, compose to fragment
- Uses KSP to generate type-safe navigation with @UiEntry annotations
- Supports multi-module navigation without direct dependencies between feature modules
- Two implementation types: Fragment for external entries, Composable for internal screens
- Integrates with Hilt and ViewModel with automatic args handling
Critical Insight
Nibel lets Android teams write new features in Jetpack Compose while automatically handling compatibility with legacy fragment-based navigation.
