I’m using navigation-compose and trying to use

popUpTo

correctly. I have a registration flow where I (for illustrative purposes) navigate to

A

->

B

->

C

->

D

->

SignedIn

. When I navigate to my

SignedIn

route like so

navController.navigate("SignedIn") {
    popUpTo("D") { inclusive = true }
}

and then press back the app goes back to

C

. When I continue to press back it goes to

B

and then

A

. It seems like my call to

popUpTo

is ONLY taking

D

off the back stack rather than popping all previous destinations from the back stack. What am I misunderstanding?

seems like it should work... 🤔 what happens when you don't specify

inclusive = true

?

I want to pop everything up to and including

D

. When I specify inclusive = false, back navigates back to

D

which is what I’d expect.

So do you want to pop A, B, C and D, i.e. the whole graph? If that's the case then aren't you looking for

popUpTo("A") { inclusive = true }

? See this example for using

popUpTo

for bottom nav bar, esp this snippet:

// Pop up to the start destination of the graph to
              // avoid building up a large stack of destinations
              // on the back stack as users select items
              popUpTo(navController.graph.findStartDestination().id) {
                saveState = true
              }

I’m not sure I understand.

// Pop everything up to and including the "home" destination off
// the back stack before navigating to the "friendslist" destination
navController.navigate("friendslist") {
    popUpTo("home") { inclusive = true }
}

The example from the same page indicates it will pop everything up to and including

home

I think you have to think of

popUpTo

in terms of a stack (LIFO). If you have already navigated

A

->

B

->

C

->

D

and you want to clear that, you have to think in terms of popping the current stack one by one till you reach the desired node, so first you'd pop

D

, then

C

, then

B

and finally

A

. If you do

popUpTo("D") { inclusive = true }

then it's just going to pop up to (and including)

D

.

Yep - had that realization after I posted… sometimes I’m so dumb I swear 😅