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

You could have your BottomAppBar in MainActivity and access your FloatingActionButton in your fragment as follows

activity?.fab?.setOnClickListener { 
    /*...*/
    findNavController().navigate(R.id.action_firstFragment_to_secondFragment, mDataBundle)
}

You could hide the BottomAppBar from another activity as follows

(activity as AppCompatActivity).supportActionBar?.hide()

Make sure you .show() the BottomAppBar while returning to previous fragment

Answer 2

Put it in MainActivity and setOnClickListener in onStart() of the activity and it will work fine.

override fun onStart() {
  super.onStart()
  floatingActionButton.setOnClickListener {
    it.findNavController().navigate(R.id.yourFragment)
   }
}

Note:This solution is like and hack and better is to follow Activity LifeCycle and setUp OnClickListener when the activity is ready to interact.

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Answer 3

Ran into this issue today and I found out that there is a simple and elegant solution for it.

val navController = findNavController(R.id.navHostFragment)

fabAdd.setOnClickListener {
   navController.navigate(R.id.yourFragment)
}  

This takes care of the navigation. Then you must control the visibility of your BottomAppBar inside your Activity.

Answer 4

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<DataModel>(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:

 <activity
        android:id="@+id/secondActivity"
        tools:layout="@layout/activity_second"
        android:name="com.amin.SecondActivity" >
    </activity>

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

 <activity
        android:id="@+id/secondActivity"
        tools:layout="@layout/activity_second"
        android:name="com.amin.SecondActivity" >
        <argument
            android:name="testArgument"
            app:argType="string"
            android:defaultValue="helloWorld" />
    </activity>

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)