Android Jetpack Navigation with ViewPager and TabLayout

Question

For a new app i use Jetpack Navigation Library to implement proper back navigation. The first level of navigation is a navigation drawer which works fine with jetpack navigation as described in the documentation. But there is another level of navigation implemented with ViewPager and TabLayout. The fragments switched by the TabLayout contain additional linear navigation hierarchy. However, there seems to be no support for ViewPager/TabLayout in Jetpack Navigation. A FragmentPagerAdapter has to be implemented and the managed back stack ends when switching tabs. There is a disconnect between the top level navigation and the navigation inside each tab. Is there any way to make this work with Jetpack Navigation?

Answer 1

Experimented with different approaches to handle TabLayout with Jetpack Navigation. But hit issues like having a full history of switching between tabs multiple times etc.

Browsing known Google Android Issues before raising a request for a demo, I found this existing issue.

Its status is Closed marked as Intended Behavior with the following explanation:

Navigation focuses on elements that affect the back stack and tabs do not affect the back stack - you should continue to manage tabs with a ViewPager and TabLayout - Referring to Youtube training.