I am trying to implement the newly introduced Navigation Architecture Component provided with Jetpack. as far it's very cool and useful for managing navigation flow of your app.
I have already setup the basic navigation including drawer layout with the toolbar in MainActivity like this:
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() { override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) setContentView(R.layout.activity_main) val navController = Navigation.findNavController(this, R.id.mainNavFragment) // Set up ActionBar setSupportActionBar(toolbar) NavigationUI.setupActionBarWithNavController(this, navController, drawerLayout) // Set up navigation menu navigationView.setupWithNavController(navController) } override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean { return NavigationUI.navigateUp(Navigation.findNavController(this, R.id.mainNavFragment), drawerLayout) }}With this layout:
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="vertical"><android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout android:id="@+id/appbar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"><android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize" app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" app:navigationIcon="@drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"/></android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout><fragment android:id="@+id/mainNavFragment" android:name="androidx.navigation.fragment.NavHostFragment" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" app:defaultNavHost="true" app:navGraph="@navigation/nav_main"/></LinearLayout>It works fins. But, the real question is when provided custom design for an app,
how can I set custom icon for hamburger or the back icon?
which is as of now, being handled by NavigatoinController itself.
I already tried options below, but it doesn't work:
app:navigationIcon="@drawable/ic_home_black_24dp" //1supportActionBar.setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.ic_android_black_24dp) //2Thanks!
