Bottom navigation view with custom item (actionLayout)

Question

I would like to add a custom item in the new BottomNavigationView .

There are plenty of tutorial of adding a custom view with the normal navigation view but I can\'t fin

Answer 1

Hope the below solution will help.

1. Create a layout : layout/_custom_cart_item_layout.xml

2. drawable/circle

3. MainActivity : layout/main_activity.xml

4. menu : menu/bottom_menu.xml

5. In your MainActivity class within onCreate

   BottomNavigationView mbottomNavigationView =findViewById(R.id.bot_nav);
   
   BottomNavigationMenuView mbottomNavigationMenuView =
   (BottomNavigationMenuView) mbottomNavigationView.getChildAt(0);
   
   View view = mbottomNavigationMenuView.getChildAt(1);
   
   BottomNavigationItemView itemView = (BottomNavigationItemView) view;
   
   View cart_badge = LayoutInflater.from(this)
   .inflate(R.layout._custom_cart_item_layout,
    mbottomNavigationMenuView, false);
   
   itemView.addView(cart_badge);
   

Output : Image

Hope it will work similar for you.

Thank you