Navigation View Global Action Back State

Question

I have been messing with the Jetpack Navigation component, and I created an activity that uses a navigation drawer.

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

          


        

Answer 1

As per the onNavDestinationSelected() documentation (which is how NavigationUI triggers menu items):

By default, the back stack will be popped back to the navigation graph's start destination. Menu items that have android:menuCategory="secondary" will not pop the back stack.

Therefore you can add android:menuCategory="secondary" to your menu item if you'd like to avoid popping other destinations off the stack when you select your settings destination.