Use Voyager for navigation with circuit

[omkar-tenkale]

Hi there 👋
I'd like to use voyager to manage my screens that are powered by circuit

is this possible to use voyager just for navigation and circuit otherwise together?

[ZacSweers]

I'm only loosely familiar with voyager and not super familiar with how its navigation works. In theory for circuit to work all you need is a Circuit instance, which supports creating presenters and UIs for screen keys. Circuit's navigator is a simple interface that you could implement with your own impl that routes to a voyager navigator maybe? We do something like this inside of slack's android app to interop with our legacy architecture's navigator.

[sengokudaikon]

voyager uses Screen/Tab interfaces to power up the navigator, each screen has a override Content() that provides the UI representation of the screen.
in short: Circuit already does this in some ways, so using them together is more or less buttering the butter with butter

[ZacSweers]

That sounds like conflating UI with routing? Also not sure where presentation logic fits in 🤔

[sengokudaikon]

a voyager screen is a ViewModel in itself and has a @composable content. so it uses a Screen impl for navigation, business logic, and presentation.
idk ¯\(ツ)/¯