Navigate to fragment on FAB click (Navigation Architecture Components)

Question

I have no idea how to, using the new navigation architecture component, navigate from my main screen (with a FloatingActionButton attatched to a BottomApp

Answer 1

if you wanted to navigate to certain fragment (not the star one) in the beginning for some reason, and also you have to graphs for one activity, here is what I suggest: this method will start activity

companion object {

        const val REQUEST_OR_CONFIRM = "request_or_confirm"
        const val IS_JUST_VIEW = "IS_JUST_VIEW"
        const val MODEL = "model"

        fun open(activity: Activity, isRequestOrConfirm: Boolean, isJustView: Boolean = false, model: DataModel? = null) {
            val intent = Intent(activity, HostActivity::class.java)
            intent.putExtra(REQUEST_OR_CONFIRM, isRequestOrConfirm)
            intent.putExtra(IS_JUST_VIEW, isJustView)
            intent.putExtra(MODEL, model)
            activity.startActivity(intent)
        }
    }

and then in, onCreate method of Host Activity, first decide which graph to use and then pass the intent extras bundle so the start fragment can decide what to do:

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_purchase_nav)
        if (intent.getBooleanExtra(REQUEST_OR_CONFIRM, true)) {
            findNavController(R.id.nav_host_fragment).setGraph(R.navigation.nav_first_scenario, intent.extras)
        } else {
            findNavController(R.id.nav_host_fragment).setGraph(R.navigation.nav_second_scenario, intent.extras)
        }
    }

and here's how you can decide what to do in start fragment:

if (arguments != null && arguments!!.getBoolean(HostActivity.IS_JUST_VIEW)){
    navigateToYourDestinationFrag(arguments!!.getParcelable(HostActivity.MODEL))
}

and then navigate like you would do normally:

private fun navigateToYourDestinationFrag(model: DataModel) {
        val action = StartFragmentDirections.actionStartFragmentToOtherFragment(model)
        findNavController().navigate(action)
    }

here's how your graph might look in case you wanted to jump to the third fragment in the beginning

PS: make sure you will handle back button on the third fragment, here's a solution

UPDATE: as EpicPandaForce mentioned, you can also start activities using Navigation Components: to do that, first add the Activity to your existing graph, either by the + icon (which didn't work for me) or by manually adding in the xml:

you can also add arguments and use them just like you would in a fragment, with navArgs()

in koltin,here's how you would use the argument, First declare args with the type of generated class named after you activity, in this case SecondActivityArgs in top of your activity class:

val args: SecondActivityArgsby by navArgs()

and then you can use it like this:

print(args.testArgument)