Google's recent component addition(Bottom Navigation) to the material design spec has got some mixed reactions.
There already are many options for navigation and the Android UI is only getting more and more cluttered with these additions.
Here are few comments from the internet:
Now you have the pleasure of 3 app menus – hamburger, kebab and tab bar – all within one screen. What a deal!
They copied the tab bar, and made it worse? Why would you encourage designers to hide labels? Why would you hide the bar when scrolling? So much confusion.
I think it's good to have flexibility in the UI solutions that are available to us. Each one of these has a specific use case they address. No one solution is perfect for everything.
What do hashnoders think about this new addition?
Useful? or a UI blunder?