Handling back button in Android Navigation Component

Question

I\'d like to know how properly handle system back button action using Navigation Controller. In my app I have two fragments (for ex. fragment1 and fragment2) and I have an a

Answer 1

So, I created an interface

public interface OnBackPressedListener {
    void onBackPressed();
}

And implemented it by all fragments that need to handle back button. In main activity I overrided onBackPressed() method:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    final Fragment currentFragment = mNavHostFragment.getChildFragmentManager().getFragments().get(0);
    final NavController controller = Navigation.findNavController(this, R.id.nav_host_fragment);
    if (currentFragment instanceof OnBackPressedListener)
        ((OnBackPressedListener) currentFragment).onBackPressed();
    else if (!controller.popBackStack())
        finish();

}

So, If the top fragment of my Navigation host implements OnBackPressedListener interface, I call its onBackPressed() method, elsewhere I simply pop back stack and close application if the back stack is empty.

Answer 2

I have searched through many threads and none of them work. Finally I found one:

MainActivity.java

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Toolbar mToolbar = findViewById(R.id.topAppBar);
    setSupportActionBar(mToolbar);
}

@Override
public boolean onSupportNavigateUp() {
    navController.navigateUp();
    return super.onSupportNavigateUp();
}

MyFragment.java

@Override
public void onViewCreated(@NonNull final View view, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    Toolbar mToolbar = (MainActivity) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.topAppBar);
    mToolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // Do something when uses presses back button (showing modals, messages,...)
            // Note that this will override behaviour of back button
        }
    });
}

@Override
public void onStop() {
    // Reset back button to default behaviour when we leave this fragment
    Toolbar mToolbar = (MainActivity) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.topAppBar);
    mToolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            mainActivity.onBackPressed();
        }
    });

    super.onStop();
}

Answer 3

just create an extension function to the fragment

fun Fragment.onBackPressedAction(action: () -> Boolean) {
    requireActivity().onBackPressedDispatcher.addCallback(viewLifecycleOwner, object :
        OnBackPressedCallback(true) {
        override fun handleOnBackPressed() {
            this.isEnabled = action()
            if (!this.isEnabled) {
                requireActivity().onBackPressed()
            }
        }
    })
}

and after in the fragment put the code into onCreateView (the action must return false to call the activity onBackPressed)

onBackPressedAction { //do something }

Answer 4

I written in main activity like this,

override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean {
        return findNavController(R.id.my_nav_host_fragment).navigateUp(appBarConfiguration)
    }   

Answer 5

The recommended method worked for me but after updating my library implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'

Implement as below

 val onBackPressedCallback = object : OnBackPressedCallback(true) {
        override fun handleOnBackPressed() {
            // Handle the back button event
        }
    }
    requireActivity().onBackPressedDispatcher.addCallback(this, onBackPressedCallback)

using Kotlin

Answer 6

Try this. I think this will help you.

override fun onBackPressed() {
    when (mNavController.getCurrentDestination()!!.getId()) {

        R.id.loginFragment -> {
            onWarningAlertDialog(this, "Alert", "Do you want to close this application ?")
        }
        R.id.registerFragment -> {
            super.onBackPressed()
        }
    }
}



private fun onWarningAlertDialog(mainActivity: MainActivity, s: String, s1: String) {

        val dialogBuilder = AlertDialog.Builder(this)
        dialogBuilder.setMessage(/*""*/s1)
                .setCancelable(false)
                .setPositiveButton("Proceed", DialogInterface.OnClickListener { dialog, id ->
                    finish()
                })
                .setNegativeButton("Cancel", DialogInterface.OnClickListener { dialog, id ->
                    dialog.cancel()
                })

        // create dialog box
        val alert = dialogBuilder.create()
        // set title for alert dialog box
        alert.setTitle("AlertDialogExample")
        // show alert dialog
        alert.show()
    }