Badge on BottomNavigationView

Question

I am trying to add a badge to the BottomNavigationView Item without using any library, however somehow the BottomNavigationView is not showing the

Answer 1

You can use the BottomNavigationView provided by the Material Components Library.

Just add the BottomNavigationView to your layout:

Then use in your code:

  int menuItemId = bottomNavigationView.getMenu().getItem(0).getItemId();
  BadgeDrawable badge = bottomNavigationView.getOrCreateBadge(menuItemId);
  badge.setNumber(2);

To change the badge gravity use the setBadgeGravity method.

badge.setBadgeGravity(BadgeDrawable.BOTTOM_END);