Bottom Navigation View has been added to version 25 of the Design Support Library. Tried and it's much easier to use now.
But I am facing problem implementing it as per my app requirements. I want to inflate menu resource dynamically and change menu items/titles of the Bottom Navigation view programmatically.
inflateMenu(int menuResource) — Inflate a menu for the bottom navigation view using a menu resource identifier.
According to docs:
inflateMenu: void inflateMenu (int resId) Inflate a menu resource into this navigation view. Existing items in the menu will not be modified or removed. Parameters resId int: ID of a menu resource to inflate
Trying to use this inflateMenu(int resID) method programmatically with navigation view throws exception "Resource not found"
bottomNavigationView.inflateMenu(R.menu.bottom_navigation_menu);
Is it possible to achieve it without any third party libraries?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<FrameLayout
android:id="@+id/main_fragment_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="@+id/bottom_navigation" />
<android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
android:id="@+id/bottom_navigation"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
app:itemBackground="@color/theme_action_bar_bg"
app:itemIconTint="@color/white"
app:itemTextColor="@color/white" />
</RelativeLayout>
Menu Resource:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_bar_item_dashboard"
android:enabled="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_nav_bar_dashboard_24px"
android:title="@string/nav_bar_item_dashboard"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_bar_item_people"
android:enabled="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_nav_bar_people_24px"
android:title="@string/nav_bar_item_people"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_bar_item_classroom"
android:enabled="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_nav_bar_classroom_24px"
android:title="@string/nav_bar_item_classrooms"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_bar_item_manage"
android:enabled="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_nav_bar_manage_24px"
android:title="@string/nav_bar_item_manage"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_bar_item_more"
android:enabled="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_nav_bar_more_24px"
android:title="@string/nav_bar_item_more"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
Inflating Programmatically in menuresource for Bottom Navigation view inside Activity:
navBar = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.bottom_navigation);
navBar.inflateMenu(R.menu.bottom_navigation_view);
BottomNavigationView navigation = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation);
//Add MenuItem with icon to Menu
navigation.getMenu().add(Menu.NONE, 1, Menu.NONE, "Home").setIcon(R.drawable.ic_home_black_24dp);
Hope it helps.