how to edit a default navigation bar

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Issue

So a noob question: I started a project with a navigation bar in Xamarin and I just want to change the default icons and change names under them in accordance with my app. Can I do that in the constructor view? The buttons themselves already do what I want them to do but I just want to change their appearance. pic activity_main.xml just in case:

<RelativeLayout 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"
    android:id"@+id/container"
    android:layout_width"match_parent"
    android:layout_height"match_parent">
    <RelativeLayout
        android:id"@+id/containerTwo"
    android:layout_width"match_parent"
    android:layout_height"match_parent">
    <WebView
        android:id"@+id/webview"
        android:layout_width"fill_parent"
        android:layout_height"fill_parent"
        android:layout_above"@id/navigation" />
        <com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
            android:id"@+id/navigation"
            android:layout_width"match_parent"
            android:layout_height"wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginEnd"0dp"
            android:layout_marginStart"0dp"
            android:background"?android:attr/windowBackground"
            android:layout_alignParentBottom"true"
            app:menu"@menu/navigation"
            android:accessibilityHeading"true"
        />

        </RelativeLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

Solution

Okay, I got it. What I managed to do:

  • Used this article
  • Installed Xamarin.Android.Support.Design
  • Downloaded desired icons from Asset Studio
  • Unpacked zip file with icons and placed all of the “drawable” folders in Resources\drawable
  • changed android:icon parameter in navigaton.xml to one of the downloaded icon names

NOTE: sometimes preview gets messed up, for example it might size icons in different scales but when you emulate the build or execute it on a real phone everything looks fine.

Answered By – magrega

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