BottomNavigationView with more than 3 Items: tab title is hiding

Solution 1:

The solution using reflection doesn't work anymore because the field mShiftingMode was removed.

There's an easy way to do it now: Use Support Library 28 or higher and just add app:labelVisibilityMode="labeled" to your BottomNavigationView XML declaration.

Hope it helps.

Solution 2:

UPDATE

removeShiftMode() is no longer needed, as in support library 28.0.0-alpha1 we can now add Labels.

In XML:

<android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
    app:labelVisibilityMode="labeled" />

For programmatically change:

mBottomNavigationView.setLabelVisibilityMode(LabelVisibilityMode.LABEL_VISIBILITY_LABELED);

For this to work: update the design support library to 28.0.0-alpha1

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FOR OLDER SUPPORT LIBRARY:

in your bottom_bar_menu.xml.Change the showAsAction attribute

<item android:id="@id/menu_item"
android:title="text"
android:icon="@drawable/drawable_resource_name"
android:showAsAction="always|withText" />

in build.gradle:

compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1'

BOTTOM NAVIGATIONVIEW MORE THAN 3 ITEMS: use removeShiftMode() method

in BottomNavigationViewHelper.java Use:

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.support.design.internal.BottomNavigationItemView;
import android.support.design.internal.BottomNavigationMenuView;
import android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;

    public class BottomNavigationViewHelper {
        @SuppressLint("RestrictedApi")
        public static void removeShiftMode(BottomNavigationView view) {
            BottomNavigationMenuView menuView = (BottomNavigationMenuView) view.getChildAt(0);
            try {
                Field shiftingMode = menuView.getClass().getDeclaredField("mShiftingMode");
                shiftingMode.setAccessible(true);
                shiftingMode.setBoolean(menuView, false);
                shiftingMode.setAccessible(false);
                for (int i = 0; i < menuView.getChildCount(); i++) {
                    BottomNavigationItemView item = (BottomNavigationItemView) menuView.getChildAt(i);
                    //noinspection RestrictedApi
                    item.setShiftingMode(false);
                    // set once again checked value, so view will be updated
                    //noinspection RestrictedApi
                    item.setChecked(item.getItemData().isChecked());
                }
            } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
                Log.e("BottomNav", "Unable to get shift mode field", e);
            } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                Log.e("BottomNav", "Unable to change value of shift mode", e);
            }
        }
    }

Call it using:

BottomNavigationView bottomNavigationView = (BottomNavigationView)findViewById(R.id.bottom_navigation);
BottomNavigationViewHelper.removeShiftMode(bottomNavigationView);

It will disable the shift animation of the title text and enable the text to be displayed.

BottomNavigationView with more than 3 Items: tab title is hiding

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