How to hide toolbar in start destination

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I tried to hide the toolbar in start fragment, but the View.GONE not work when I explicitly set the toolbar in navigationUI.

// mainActivity
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private lateinit var binding: ActivityMainBinding
    private lateinit var navController: NavController
    private lateinit var appBarConfiguration: AppBarConfiguration
    private lateinit var drawerLayout: DrawerLayout
    private lateinit var toolbar: androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        binding = DataBindingUtil.setContentView(this, R.layout.activity_main)
        drawerLayout = binding.drawerLayout
        navController = this.findNavController(R.id.myNavHostFragment)

        toolbar = binding.toolbar
        // setSupportActionBar(toolbar)

        appBarConfiguration = AppBarConfiguration(
            setOf(R.id.secondFragment, R.id.thirdFragment), drawerLayout
        )

        navController.addOnDestinationChangedListener { _, destination, _ ->
            when (destination.id) {
                R.id.startFragment -> {
                    toolbar.visibility = View.GONE
                }
            }
        }

        NavigationUI.setupActionBarWithNavController(
            this, navController, appBarConfiguration
        )
        NavigationUI.setupWithNavController(binding.navView, navController)
    }

    override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean {
        return NavigationUI.navigateUp(navController, appBarConfiguration)
    }
}

// activity_main.xml
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">

    <androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout
        android:id="@+id/drawerLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            tools:context=".MainActivity">

            <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

            <fragment
                android:id="@+id/myNavHostFragment"
                android:name="androidx.navigation.fragment.NavHostFragment"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                app:defaultNavHost="true"
                app:navGraph="@navigation/navigation" />

        </androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

        <com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
            android:id="@+id/navView"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="start"
            app:menu="@menu/drawer_menu"
            app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_header"/>

    </androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout>
</layout>
2 Answers

Try like this

  toolbar = binding.toolbar
  setSupportActionBar(toolbar) // uncomment this line

  // ....

  navController.addOnDestinationChangedListener { _, destination, _ ->
        when (destination.id) {
            R.id.startFragment -> {
                supportActionBar?.hide() // to hide
            }else{
                supportActionBar?.show() // to show
            }
        }
  }

OR

You can hide toolbar from your fragment like below.

override fun onResume() {
    super.onResume()
    (activity as AppCompatActivity?)!!.supportActionBar!!.hide()
}

And don't forget to call show() inside the onStop() in the same fragment' to show thetoolbarto otherfragmentoractivity`.

override fun onStop() {
    super.onStop()
    (activity as AppCompatActivity?)!!.supportActionBar!!.show()
}

I add my own toolbar in activity_main.xml, and replace the the default style of theme with NoActionBar.

// in activity_main.xml
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:elevation="4dp"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

// in style.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        ...
</style>
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