It's best to use it when having five or more top-level destinations. It is also able to be used across variant sizes of devices.

Navigation Drawer

Tabs present two or more sets of data at any level of an app's hierarchy

Tabs

 Bottom Navigation allows for three to five top-level destination on mobile devices

Bottom Navigation

An app's primary navigation components should provide access to the most important destinations of an application. This can be done with:
- Navigation Bars 
- Bottom Navigation Bars
- Tabs


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"Lateral navigation refers to movement between screens at the same level of hierarchy. It enables access to different app destinations and features, or pivoting between related items in a set."

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