BottomNavigationView text blinking on change

Question

Here is blinking: http://gph.is/2GH9P0b

<android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
       android:id="@+id/navigation"
       style="@style/BottomNavigation"
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
       android:layout_marginEnd="0dp"
       android:layout_marginStart="0dp"
       app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
       app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
       app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
       app:menu="@menu/navigation" />

Styles.xml

<style name="BottomNavigation">
    <item name="android:background">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="itemIconTint">@drawable/nav_bottom_selector</item>
    <item name="itemTextColor">@drawable/nav_bottom_text_selector</item>
</style>

Selectors nav_bottom_text_selector and nav_bottom_selectorhave the same code.

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:color="@android:color/white" android:state_checked="true"/>
    <item android:color="#6e6e6e" />

MainActivity.class Here is tab change listener. But I do not think that problem is here because even I comment this part it is anyway blinking.

navigation.setOnNavigationItemSelectedListener(new BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onNavigationItemSelected (@NonNull MenuItem item) {

        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.navigation_exercises:
                // even not replace tabs, just hide and show                          
                fragmentManager.beginTransaction().show(exerciseFragment).hide(workoutFragment).hide(profileFragment).commit();
                SharedPrefsHelper.getInstance().setLastTab(getApplicationContext(), ConsKeys.BOTTOM_TAB_EXERCISE);
                break;
            case R.id.navigation_workouts:
                fragmentManager.beginTransaction().hide(exerciseFragment).show(workoutFragment).hide(profileFragment).commit();
                SharedPrefsHelper.getInstance().setLastTab(getApplicationContext(), ConsKeys.BOTTOM_TAB_WORKOUTS);
                break;

            case R.id.navigation_profile:
                fragmentManager.beginTransaction().hide(exerciseFragment).hide(workoutFragment).show(profileFragment).commit();
                //Saving last tab     
                SharedPrefsHelper.getInstance().setLastTab(getApplicationContext(), ConsKeys.BOTTOM_TAB_PROFILE);


                break;
        }

        return true;
    }
    });

Navigation menu.xml for bottom navigation view

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/navigation_exercises"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"
        android:title="@string/title_exercises" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/navigation_workouts"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_dashboard_black_24dp"
        android:title="@string/title_workouts" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/navigation_profile"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_notifications_black_24dp"
        android:title="@string/title_profile" />

</menu>

Answer 1

This issue happens because of an API change introduced in Android Q that affected the transition used to animate the BottomNavigationView menu items. You've got two ways to fix it:

FIRST: Include this dependency in your app's graddle

implementation 'androidx.transition:transition:1.3.0-rc02'

This will replace the library's transition mechanism and the issue will go away.

SECOND: Lower your Target SDK Version to API 28 or lower. Although, I would only recommend this solution if the first one doesn't work, since you would loose any behavioral change introduced in the new version of the OS.

Hope this helps!