How to know when `navController.popBackStack()` was called?

Question

I am popping the backstack on my nav controller on some point in my code -

  navController.popBackStack()

The fragment that added that following fragment to the backstack needs to know exactly when that one was popped in order to trigger code following that.

How do I make the first fragment know about it?

I thought about adding a callback as an argument but I doubt it's a good practice.

Have you thought about a shared ViewModel between the popped fragment and the activity? That could work — Quentin vk, Aug 05 '20 at 08:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 06 '20 at 08:47

If you use Koin you can do something like:

class MyActivity : AppCompatActivity(){

// Lazy inject MyViewModel
val model : MySharedViewModelby sharedViewModel()

override fun onCreate() {
    super.onCreate()

model.isFragmentPopped.observe(this, Observe{
    if(it){
            doSomething()
          }
    }    
}
}

Fragment:

class MyFragment : Fragment(){

// Lazy inject MyViewModel
val model : MySharedViewModel by sharedViewModel()

override fun onCreate() {
    super.onCreate()

    var fragmentX = model.isFragmentXPopped
}

fun backstackPopped{
    model.fragmentPopped()
    navController.popBackStack()
}
}

ViewModel:

var _isFragmentPopped = MutableLiveData<Boolean>(false)
val isFragmentPopped : LiveData<Boolean>
get = _isFragmentPopped

fun fragmentPopped(){
    _isFragmentPopped.value = true
}

Keep in mind that you should keep sharedViewModels as small as possible as they do not get destroyed until the activity is destroyed.

Highly appreciate your comment. Thanks – Alon Shlider Aug 06 '20 at 10:47 — Alon Shlider, Aug 06 '20 at 10:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '22 at 12:21

we can create observer for return values from second fragment using popBackStack()

In firstFragment use this for observer :-

override fun onViewCreated(view: View, savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState)
    val navController = findNavController()
    navController.currentBackStackEntry?.savedStateHandle?.getLiveData<String>("key")
        ?.observe(viewLifecycleOwner) {
          
        }
}

In secondFragment use this code

val navController = findNavController()
    navController.previousBackStackEntry?.savedStateHandle?.set("key", "you press back button")
    navController.popBackStack()

How to know when `navController.popBackStack()` was called?

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