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Any opinions on <https://github.com/google/accompanist/issues/729> (offering the possibility for animated navigation transitions with a single `NavHost`)? Should I report an issue on the Google Issue Tracker instead?

Same issue here. Currently I put the bottom bar outside the NavHost and am showing/hiding it depending on the backstack entry. This works well when transitioning between bottom bar destinations but not so well when transitioning to any other destination (the bottom bar will “suddenly” disappear just before the transition animation begins).

I wish there was a better way, is it that much discouraged to nest NavHosts?

The only reason it suddenly disappears is because that's what you've written - there's so many ways to nicely animate composables out that even something like `AnimatedVisibility` will be way nicer than just a simple if statement

You might take a look at Navigation 2.4.0-alpha10's new `navController.visibleEntries` StateFlow: <https://twitter.com/ianhlake/status/1443278698015170560>

Since that contains entries that are animating in and out, you'll know what screen is animating out (it is the one that is only `CREATED`) and you can use it to only run an animation when the NavController finishes its transition (the last entry's Lifecycle reaches the `RESUMED` state)

But still, animating in a screen above the bottom bar is not possible. I hope we'll get there :slightly_smiling_face:

What actually does 'animated in a screen above the bottom bar' actually mean? "Over the bottom bar" really just means that you want to ignore the bottom padding that the Scaffold provides (thus, overlapping the bottom bar) and setting a higher zIndex (via the modifier of that name). What makes you think that isn't possible right now?

The problem is that some destinations of the `NavHost` need to be under the bottom bar and some over it (at least that's required to allow all kinds of animations). Using `zIndex` in `Scaffold` to put the body over the bottom bar did not work when I last tried it (maybe I did something wrong), but it works with a custom `Scaffold` implementation, so that's a work around for a limited set of animations. Modifying `zIndex` per destination had not effect when I last tried it (which is what I would expect).