Handling back button in Android Navigation Component

Question

I\'d like to know how properly handle system back button action using Navigation Controller. In my app I have two fragments (for ex. fragment1 and fragment2) and I have an a

Answer 1

Here is my solution

Use androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity for the activity that contains the NavHostFragment fragment.

Define the following interface and implement it in all navigation destination fragments

interface InterceptionInterface {

    fun onNavigationUp(): Boolean
    fun onBackPressed(): Boolean
}

In your activity override onSupportNavigateUp and onBackPressed:

override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean {
        return getCurrentNavDest().onNavigationUp() || navigation_host_fragment.findNavController().navigateUp()
}

override fun onBackPressed() {
        if (!getCurrentNavDest().onBackPressed()){
            super.onBackPressed()
        }
}

private fun getCurrentNavDest(): InterceptionInterface {
        val currentFragment = navigation_host_fragment.childFragmentManager.primaryNavigationFragment as InterceptionInterface
        return currentFragment
}

This solution has the advantage, that the navigation destination fragments don't need to worry about the unregistering of their listeners as soon as they are detached.