Apps are often composed of several pages and the user can drill-down to detail pages and go back up again. This is often visualized by horizontal slide animations. OpenUI5 supports this pattern by providing the sap.m.App and sap.m.NavContainer controls, which handle the navigation between the pages.
sap.m.App inherits the navigation capabilities from the sap.m.NavContainer control. Thus, both controls are equal with regard to navigation and navigation events. The following sections refer to the sap.m.NavContainer, but the same also applies to the sap.m.App control.
An app can control the navigation flow centrally and directly trigger the initialization of the pages. To support modularization of the app, however, it may also be beneficial to control the navigation flow non-centrally. In this case, code which constructs a page is also the code that handles, for example, the data load in this page.
To support this, OpenUI5 provides two types of events:
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Events fired by the App or by the NavContainer whenever it navigates.
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Events fired on the pages when they get shown or hidden by navigation.
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