Stop fragment refresh in bottom nav using navhost

Question

This problem has been asked a few times now, but we are in 2020 now, did anyone find a good usable solution to this yet?

I want to be able to navigate using the bott

Answer 1

If you use NavigationUI.setupWithNavController(), the NavOptions are defined for you with NavigationUI.onNavDestinationSelected(). These options include launchSingleTop and, if the menu item is not secondary, a popUpTo the root of the graph.

The problem is, that launchSingleTop still replaces the top fragment with a new one. To resolve this issue, you'd have to create your own setupWithNavController() and onNavDestinationSelected() functions. In onNavDestinationSelected() you'd just adapt the NavOptions to your needs.