How can I add a menu dynamically to bottom navigation view?

Question

Android has new ui element - BottomNavigationView

I don't want to contain my menus in the xml files. I will receive the information about menu items and order from backend side. I want to create them dynamically and set into the BottomNavigationView in the onCreate() method. Can I do this?

Answer 1

By default, BottomNavigationView starts with an empty menu. You can use the getMenu() method to get the Menu instance, then add menu items as in the response above. For example,

BottomNavigationView bottomNavigation = findViewById(R.id.bottom_navigation); Menu menu = bottomNavigation.getMenu(); menu.add(Menu.NONE, MENU_ITEM_ID_ONE, Menu.NONE, getString(R.string.str_menu_one))     .setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_one);