Remove up button from action bar when navigating using BottomNavigationView with Android Navigation UI library - android-support-library

Question

I've created a small app that has three fragments for top-level navigation through a BottomNavigationView. If you launch the app and click on a navigation button on the bottom nav, you are presented with an up button in the action bar. Here is the code for the activity:
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.main_activity)
setSupportActionBar(toolbar)
val navController = navHostFragment.findNavController()
setupActionBarWithNavController(this, navController)
setupWithNavController(bottomNav, navController)
}
override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean
= findNavController(navHostFragment).navigateUp()
}
Here is a screenshot of the result. The app is launched on the home screen and all I've done is simply click the profile button from the BottomNavigationView.
I've tried listening to the BottomNavigationView's item selections and navigating manually using different NavOptions to no avail. Is there anything we can do to avoid showing an up button in the action bar while the user is navigating with a BottomNavigationView?

Answer 1

Starting with 1.0.0-alpha07 you can use AppBarConfiguration to configure that behaviour.
AppBarConfiguration has a Builder constructor so you can create a new Builder with a specific set of top level destinations, referenced by their id (this id is the one you set on your navigation layout).
Create new AppBarConfiguration:
val appBarConfiguration = AppBarConfiguration
.Builder(
R.id.navigationHomeFragment,
R.id.navigationListFragment,
R.id.navigationProfileFragment)
.build()
Then, instead of setupActionBarWithNavController(this, navController) you need to call setupActionBarWithNavController(this, navController, appBarConfiguration)
This is the right way to handle top navigation behaviours.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and I found a way to get the current fragment with the NavController.addOnNavigatedListener, so I applied the following logic within my Activity and for now it works for me
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_home)
val navHost = supportFragmentManager
.findFragmentById(R.id.navHostFragment) as NavHostFragment
navHost.navController.addOnNavigatedListener { _, destination ->
val showButton = showUpButton(destination.id)
//Here occurs the magic
supportActionBar?.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(showButton)
supportActionBar?.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(showButton)
}
}
//Check according to your convenience which fragment id
//should show or hide the "Up Button"
private fun showUpButton(id: Int): Boolean {
return id != R.id.your_home_fragment && id != R.id.your_list_fragment
&& id != R.id.your_profile_fragment
}
And this is my project...
I do not know if it is the best option but if someone has any better suggestion, it will be welcome

Answer 3

Use this instead of setupWithNavController:
navController.addOnNavigatedListener(new NavController.OnNavigatedListener() {
#Override
public void onNavigated(#NonNull NavController controller, #NonNull NavDestination destination) {
toolbar.setTitle(destination.getLabel());
}
});
Or the equivalent in Kotlin.
The only thing setupWithNavController does is add a listener to change the toolbar title, and creates the up button. If you don't want the up button, just add a listener which changes the toolbar title only.

Answer 4

You could set the navigation icon to null, or change the icon only for some destinations
eg:
1) In Kotlin:
navController.addOnDestinationChangedListener { _, destination, _ ->
toolbar.title = destination.label
toolbar.navigationIcon = null
}
2) In Java:
hostFragment.getNavController().addOnDestinationChangedListener(new OnDestinationChangedListener() {
public final void onDestinationChanged(#NotNull NavController controller, #NotNull NavDestination destination, #Nullable Bundle arguments) {
toolbar.setTitle(destination.getLabel());
toolbar.setNavigationIcon(null);
}
});

Answer 5

If you are using NavigationUI.setupWithNavController check out onNavDestinationSelected.
Inside your bottom navigation view menu.xml, add android:menuCategory="secondary" to the corresponding MenuItem:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/profileFragment"
android:icon="#drawable/bottom_nav_icon_profile"
android:menuCategory="secondary"
android:title="#string/profile" />

Answer 6

In Java this works for me:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Toolbar toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
navController = Navigation.findNavController(this, R.id.nav_host_fragment);
AppBarConfiguration appBarConfiguration = new AppBarConfiguration
.Builder(navController.getGraph())
.build();
NavigationUI.setupWithNavController(toolbar, navController, appBarConfiguration);
navController.addOnDestinationChangedListener((controller, destination, arguments) -> {
toolbar.setTitle(destination.getLabel());
toolbar.setNavigationIcon(null);
});