How to dynamically hide a menu item in BottomNavigationView?

Question

I want to hide a menu item of BottomNavigationView dynamically based on some conditions. I tried the following but it is not working.

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Answer 1

The removeItem displaces the menu items in the bar when an item(s) is hidden. I found a slightly better way. Create a group of menu items that you would want to hide your menu xml.

In your bottom_menu.xml

And in your activity.cs

Menu menu = mbottomNavigation.getMenu();  
menu.setGroupEnabled(R.id.hiddenmenu, false);

Although, with this setup, when all menu items are visible, the checked change state of the menu items goes out of whack. Also tried programmatically adding menu items to an empty group but the group stopped responding to the GroupDisable...