How to set title in app bar with Navigation Architecture Component

Question

I was trying out Navigation architecture component and is now having difficulties in setting the title. How do I set the title programmatically and also how it works?

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Answer 1

There is a much easier way to achieve this nowadays with Kotlin and androidx.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:

import androidx.navigation.ui.setupActionBarWithNavController

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private val navController: NavController
        get() = findNavController(R.id.nav_host_fragment)

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

        val binding = DataBindingUtil.setContentView(this,R.layout.activity_main)
        setSupportActionBar(binding.toolbar)
        setupActionBarWithNavController(navController) // <- the most important line
    }

    // Required by the docs for setupActionBarWithNavController(...)
    override fun onSupportNavigateUp() = navController.navigateUp()
}

That's basically it. Don't forget to specify android:label in your nav graphs.