Navigation Component: Cannot find NavController

Question

I am using Navigation Component for navigating in my app. It works fine inside fragments but it fails to find the nav host in the activity that holds the actual navigation host.

I am trying to open a new fragment when the user clicks on FAB, which I included in Main activity's XML. When I call findNavController() it fails to find the controller. The nav host controller is in the XML layout. I can't understand why it fails to find it.

MainActivity

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), OnActivityComponentRequest {
    override fun getTabLayout(): TabLayout {
        return this.tabLayout
    }

    override fun getFap(): FloatingActionButton {
        return this.floatingActionButton
    }

    private lateinit var tabLayout: TabLayout
    private lateinit var floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar)
        this.tabLayout = tabs
        this.floatingActionButton = fab

        fab.setOnClickListener {

         it.findNavController().navigate(R.id.addNewWorkoutFragment)

        }
    }
}

Activity main XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        tools:context=".domain.MainActivity"
        android:animateLayoutChanges="true">

    <com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
                app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
                app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"/>

        <com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout
                android:id="@+id/tabs"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content">

            <com.google.android.material.tabs.TabItem
                    android:text="Test 1"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"/>

            <com.google.android.material.tabs.TabItem
                    android:text="Test 2"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"/>
        </com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout>

    </com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>

      <fragment
        android:id="@+id/nav_host_fragment"
        android:name="androidx.navigation.fragment.NavHostFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:defaultNavHost="true"
        app:navGraph="@navigation/main_navigation" />


    <com.google.android.material.bottomappbar.BottomAppBar
            android:id="@+id/bar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="bottom"/>


    <com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton
            android:id="@+id/fab"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_anchorGravity="right|top"
            app:layout_anchor="@+id/bar"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_add_black_24dp"/>

</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Answer 1

In Java you can find NavController inside activity this way:

Navigation.findNavController(this,R.id.nav_host).navigate(R.id.YourFragment);