Before trying the Navigation component I used to manually do fragment transactions and used the fragment tag in order to fetch the current fragment. val fragment:MyFragment = supportFragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(tag):MyFragment Now in my main activity layout I have something like: <fragment android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:id="@+id/nav_host" app:
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