8 Creating and showing the bottom sheet

Once an instance of the class BottomSheet.Builder has been configured by using the setter methods discussed in the previous sections of this documentation, the builder's method create():BottomSheet can be used to create the bottom sheet as an instance of the class BottomSheet. Such an instance can be shown by calling its show-method.

A shorter way of showing the bottom sheet, which is created by a BottomSheet.Builder, is to call the builder's show-method. This method implicitly calls the create-method to create the bottom sheet, as well as the bottom sheet's show-method to show the bottom sheet on the screen.

After a BottomSheet has been shown using its show-method, some of its attributes can still be changed. The class therefore provides a subset of the methods, which are also provided by the builder. Additionaly getter methods, which allow to retrieve a bottom sheet's attributes, are also provided. By default, if the content of a bottom sheet extends a specific height, it is shown in a minimized way, which causes only a few of its item to be visible. By dragging the bottom sheet, it can be expanded to display the whole content. If the a bottom sheet should be maximized by default, the maximize-method of the BottomSheet or BottomSheet.Builder instance can be used instead of the show-method.