How do I disable the default navigation?

[rajasimon]

I've been trying to disable the default navigation bar that appears after following the Native Android setup. No matter what I do, it keeps showing at the top of the screen.

The reason I'm trying to remove it is that I haven't been able to change its background color. If I can successfully hide the default top bar, I’ll be able to use a custom HTML navbar instead.

If anyone knows how to completely disable the default navigation, please help!

[jayohms]

The Android toolbar uses the theme style specified in your application to determine its colors. For example, in the demo app that's provided here: https://github.com/hotwired/hotwire-native-android/blob/main/demo/src/main/res/values/styles.xml#L29-L35

This is the preferred approach, since it's visible immediately, before the WebView content has loaded. It also works out-of-the-box with the navigation backstack. This provides a more native-feeling experience.

To modify the default web fragment, you'd need to subclass HotwireWebFragment, register it as the default fragment destination, and provide your own custom layout without the AppBarLayout included. See the default layout: https://github.com/hotwired/hotwire-native-android/blob/main/navigation-fragments/src/main/res/layout/hotwire_fragment_web.xml

[rajasimon]

yeah but I don't comfortable tweaking MainActivity at this point. Do you know the way I can update the back button color for the dark mode? Currently I can't see the back button.

[janpeterka]

Before finding this discussion, I had the same problem and opened issue.

[janpeterka]

Is it possible (and can someone give some pointers) to show navigation bar only on some pages?
Should I have different fragments and choose one in MainActivity based on path configuration?

[rajasimon]

Navigation I don't think so but for the bottom navigation I created a custom fragment to show/hide it. This decision comes from the bridge component flow into fragment.

[janpeterka]

I'm interested in top navigation, as some pages (e.g. dashboard, and all that are directly accessible by bottom navigation tabs) don't need the top navigation and it would save space and make app look nicer to show them without it.