Remove BottomNavigationView labels

Question

Google released new support library v25 with BottomNavigationView

is there any way to remove items labels ?

Answer 1

1. Set android:title=""; in menu/abc.xml

2. Create the below helper class which is using reflection

import android.support.design.internal.BottomNavigationMenuView;
import android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView;
import android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageView;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.widget.FrameLayout;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public class BottomNavigationViewHelper {
    public static void disableShiftMode(BottomNavigationView view) {
        BottomNavigationMenuView menuView = (BottomNavigationMenuView) view.getChildAt(0);
        try {
            Field shiftingMode = menuView.getClass().getDeclaredField("mShiftingMode");
            shiftingMode.setAccessible(true);
            shiftingMode.setBoolean(menuView, false);
            shiftingMode.setAccessible(false);
            for (int i = 0; i < menuView.getChildCount(); i++) {
                BottomNavigationItemView item = (BottomNavigationItemView) menuView.getChildAt(i);
                //noinspection RestrictedApi
                item.setShiftingMode(false);
                item.setPadding(0, 15, 0, 0);
                // set once again checked value, so view will be updated
                //noinspection RestrictedApi
                item.setChecked(item.getItemData().isChecked());
            }
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            Log.e("BNVHelper", "Unable to get shift mode field", e);
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            Log.e("BNVHelper", "Unable to change value of shift mode", e);
        }
    }
} 

3. In your main activity, add these lines:

mBottomNav = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation);
BottomNavigationViewHelper.disableShiftMode(mBottomNav);