Hello I have a question regarding Compose Navigati...

# compose

[Thomas]

Hello I have a question regarding Compose Navigation:
For NavController.navigate inside the popUpTo function, what's the difference between passing in 1.NavController.graph.findStartDestination().id and 2.NavController.graph.id ?
I suppose both options points at the root of the NavGraph? 🤔

[Ian Lake]

Did you get a chance to read the KDocs on findStartDestination? It explicitly calls out where they are different (when the start destination of your graph is a nested navigation graph itself): https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/navigation/NavGraph#(androidx.navigation.NavGraph).findStartDestination()

[Thomas]

Thanks for the reply!

> (findStartDestination)
> Finds the actual start destination of the graph, handling cases where the graph's starting destination is itself a NavGraph
Can I understand "actual start destination", as "first non-NavGraph destination"?

[Thomas]

I have created a test to demonstrate the difference between startDestinationId
and findStartDestination().id

Here is a screenshot, I hope this helps people in the future

[Thomas]

I still don't understand the exact behavior when using popUpTo with graph.id

kdoc on `NavGraph`:
> A NavGraph serves as a 'virtual' destination: while the NavGraph itself will not appear on the back stack, navigating to the NavGraph will cause the [starting destination]_*[getStartDestination]*_ to be added to the back stack.
I suppose popUpTo with graph.id pops the entire back stack, and then adds the start destination to the back stack?

And what happens with inclusive = true?