feat(ui): navigation drawer holding every destination - #49
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Features had drifted into Settings because the bottom bar only fits about five items: Analytics sat inside the History screen, Reminders under Settings > Notifications, Relationships under Settings > System, Files under Settings > Data. Three-plus taps for things the web client puts one click away. Adds a ModalNavigationDrawer listing every destination, grouped, mirroring web's sidebar. The bar becomes the fast path rather than the whole app: Home plus three destinations plus a "More" entry that opens the drawer. Polls moves off the bar into the drawer. The bar/rail now stays on screen for drawer destinations too, with "More" reading as selected, so stepping to one doesn't strand you with no chrome. opens the drawer only where the bar is showing, so detail screens, editors and the pan/zoom relationship graph keep their horizontal drags. Sign out stays in Groups gets a drawer destination too, which turned up a duplicate: the standalone GroupsScreen behind Routes.GROUPS had been unreachable since groups became a tab of the People screen, and the live tab had drifted to a plainer card. The dead screen was the better one, so its card (nesting indent, expand-to-see-members, edit affordance) is now what the tab renders, the flat duplicate is gone, and Routes.GROUPS opens the People screen on its Groups tab.
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The problem
The bottom bar fits about five items, so everything past five drifted into Settings, which became a de-facto feature drawer. Tap paths today vs the web client:
The route names admit it:
settings/relationships,settings/notifications/reminders,settings/files.What this does
Adds a
ModalNavigationDrawerlisting every destination, grouped (Tracking / Writing / Engage / System / the rest) - the Android equivalent of web's sidebar.The bar becomes the fast path rather than the whole app:
This is additive: every existing path into these screens still works, and nothing has moved out of Settings yet. That keeps it easy to reverse if the shape feels wrong on a device.
Edge-swipe is enabled only where the bar is showing, so detail screens, editors and the pan/zoom relationship graph keep their horizontal drags. An open drawer can always be swiped shut.
Sign out is not in the drawer - a session-ending action one stray edge-swipe from any screen is a footgun, so it stays in Settings > Danger zone.
Groups: a duplicate, cleaned up
Giving Groups a drawer row turned up dead code.
Routes.GROUPSrendered a standaloneGroupsScreenthat nothing navigated to, unreachable since groups became a tab of the People screen. Awkwardly, the dead screen was the better one: the live tab had drifted to a plain flat card, while the orphan had nesting indents, tap-to-expand inline members, and an edit affordance.So rather than delete it: the rich card is now what the Groups tab renders, the flat duplicate is gone, and
Routes.GROUPSopens the People screen on its Groups tab. One groups UI, and it's the good one.Testing
:app:assemblePlayReleasegreen (through R8). Device checklist: