Lag when switching tabs in BottomNavigationView

Question

I have an Activity that contains a BottomNavigationView, and this bottomnav helps the activity to display three fragments. These fragments load well, and I use an AsyncTask to do every heavy operation, while in the UI thread, I show a ProgressBar until everything loads.
There is a weird behaviour with my fragment: The first time I load the fragment it takes some time to actually display it, instead of displaying it instantly with a progressbar.
This thing only happens the first time, and only in this fragment.
The fragment code only contains this:

@Override
    public void onActivityCreated(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
        new LoadData(getView(), getContext()).execute();
    }

private class LoadData extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {

        private View v;
        private Context context;

        public LoadData(View v, Context context) {
            items = new ArrayList<>();
            this.v = v;
            this.context = context;
        }

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... voids) {
            setItems(context); //Heavy operation
            adapter = new DashAdapter(items, context);
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            //shows progressbar
            progress = v.findViewById(R.id.DFProgress);
            progress.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
            super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
            setPager();
            //sets viewPager and hides progressbar
            progress.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }
    }

In the gif below, if you look at the bottomnavigationview at the bottom, you can see that it takes time to display the fragment. But after trying to load the fragment a second time, it loads as expected.

How could I make the fragment to load the right way?

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I have two options.

1. Use postdelay when you call LoadData or
2. First add all fragments with manually. You manage navigationItemSelected yourself.

Like this:

val firstFragment: Fragment = FirstFragment()
val secondFragment: Fragment = SecondFragment()
val thirdFragment: Fragment = ThirdFragment()

val navView: BottomNavigationView = findViewById(R.id.nav_view)

var active = firstFragment
fm.beginTransaction().add(R.id.nav_host_fragment, thirdFragment, "3").hide(thirdFragment).commit()
fm.beginTransaction().add(R.id.nav_host_fragment, secondFragment, "2").hide(secondFragment).commit()
fm.beginTransaction().add(R.id.nav_host_fragment, firstFragment, "1").commit()

navView.setOnNavigationItemReselectedListener {  }
navView.setOnNavigationItemSelectedListener { item ->
       when (item.itemId) {
           R.id.navigation_first -> {
               fm.beginTransaction().hide(active).show(firstFragment).commit()
               active = firstFragment

           }
           R.id.navigation_second -> {
               fm.beginTransaction().hide(active).show(secondFragment).commit()
               active = secondFragment
           }
           R.id.navigation_third -> {
               fm.beginTransaction().hide(active).show(thirdFragment).commit()
               active = thirdFragment
           }
       }
        true
   }

And remove these lines in your nav_host_fragment:

app:defaultNavHost="true"
app:navGraph="@navigation/mobile_navigation"