The navigation drawer is ergonomically equivalent to the deprecated "dashboard," except for touching to the right of the drawer to dismiss it. It looks a bit better, but it works just as poorly, being a place where you can do nothing but go to some other place.
As for the warning against using a "bottom tab bar" that's an iPhone idiom that should not be carried to Android. BUT Android has a split Action Bar option that is an Android-kosher way of displaying commands along the bottom of handset-sized layouts, and automatically putting them in the top action bar on large tablet-sized layouts.
The screen shot next to the "bottom tab bar" discussion is a bit confusing. It does not actually show tabs in an action bar, as the caption indicates it should.
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The navigation drawer is ergonomically equivalent to the deprecated "dashboard," except for touching to the right of the drawer to dismiss it. It looks a bit better, but it works just as poorly, being a place where you can do nothing but go to some other place.
As for the warning against using a "bottom tab bar" that's an iPhone idiom that should not be carried to Android. BUT Android has a split Action Bar option that is an Android-kosher way of displaying commands along the bottom of handset-sized layouts, and automatically putting them in the top action bar on large tablet-sized layouts.
The screen shot next to the "bottom tab bar" discussion is a bit confusing. It does not actually show tabs in an action bar, as the caption indicates it should.