BottomNavigationView

BottomNavigationView is used in Samsung apps to display bottom actions during an event or as a navigation bar for apps with multiple pages (see Samsung Health, Game Launcher…). It differs from Google’s one by introducing a new theme and new features.

This documentation page provides only the additional features, for a complete documentation of this component please take a look at:

• Android Developers
• Material.io

We also suggest you to read Samsung’s One UI design guidelines before you implement this in your app:

• Samsung Developers
• One UI Design Guidelines (page 29-30)

Styles

• Widget.Design.BottomNavigationView

  

• Widget.Design.Light.BottomNavigationView

  

• Widget.Design.BottomNavigationView.Text

  

• Widget.Design.Light.BottomNavigationView.Text

  

Avoid using “Widget.MaterialComponents.*” styles.

XML attributes

• NavigationBarView_seslViewType

  Sets item view layout type.

• NavigationBarView_seslLabelTextAppearance

  Sets text-specific styling for the item text label.

Constants

• SESL_TYPE_ICON_LABEL

  Default item view type.

• SESL_TYPE_LABEL_ONLY

  Label-only item view type.

Methods

• Set item view layout type.

public void seslSetViewType(int viewType)

• Deprecated. Set whether or not the item layout has an icon.

public void seslSetHasIcon(boolean hasIcon)

• Get if the Overflow menu button is available.

public boolean seslHasOverflowButton()

• Show the Overflow menu popup if available.

public void seslShowOverflowMenu()

• Get if the Overflow menu popup is showing.

public boolean seslIsOverflowShowing()

• Hide the Overflow menu popup.

public void seslHideOverflowMenu()

• Get the current Overflow menu instance.

public MenuBuilder seslGetOverflowMenu()

• Show the group divider in the Overflow menu.

public void seslSetGroupDividerEnabled(boolean enabled)

• Wrapper for setItemTextAppearanceInactive(int).

public void seslSetLabelTextAppearance(@StyleRes int textAppearanceRes)

• Get the current label text appearance resource id.

public int seslGetLabelTextAppearance()

• Animate on menu changes.

public void seslSetUpdateAnimation(boolean enabled)

Item badge

This view support the SeslMenuItem interface to show a badge with text for each MenuItem:

SeslMenuItem menuItem = (SeslMenuItem) bottomNavView.getMenu().findItem(R.id.item_1);
menuItem.setBadgeText("N");