Set selected item in Android BottomNavigationView

Question

I am using the new android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView from the support library. How can I set the current selection from code? I realized, that

Answer 1

Above API 25 you can use setSelectedItemId(menu_item_id) but under API 25 you must do differently, user Menu to get handle and then setChecked to Checked specific item