android - FragmentContainerView as NavHostFragment

Question

Seems like using the FragmentContainerView doesn't work right out of the box?

<androidx.fragment.app.FragmentContainerView
        class="androidx.navigation.fragment.NavHostFragment"
        android:id="@+id/fragment_nav_host"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:defaultNavHost="true"

        app:navGraph="@navigation/nav_app" />

Here's my code using fragment-ktx:1.2.0-rc01 and I'm just always getting this error:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Activity ...MainActivity@797467d does not have a NavController set on 2131296504

Just using <fragment> works and AFAIK, it's just supposed to be replaced by FragmentContainerView.

Am I missing something or was anyone able to use FragmentContainerView as a NavHostFragment?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

Due to this bug-report: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/142847973

This is the only way (currently):

val navHostFragment = supportFragmentManager
    .findFragmentById(R.id.my_nav_host_fragment) as NavHostFragment
val navController = navHostFragment.navController

(Java):

NavHostFragment navHostFragment =
    (NavHostFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
        .findFragmentById(R.id.my_nav_host_fragment);
NavController navController = navHostFragment.getNavController();