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

You can try the performClick method :

View view = bottomNavigationView.findViewById(R.id.YOUR_ACTION);
view.performClick();

Edit

From API 25.3.0 it was introduced the method setSelectedItemId(int id) which lets you mark an item as selected as if it was tapped.