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Activity destinations should be considered exit points for your navigation graph - they are not part of the NavController's back stack and therefore not being sent to OnNavigatedListeners is working as intended.

Thank you for your explanation, but although that is the intended behavior, it is still confusing.
In my opinion, the developer expects to be notified when any navigation action defined in the graph is performed, regardless the destination.

Although that action is considered an exit point, it is an action defined within the graph and it is indeed a navigation action happening in that graph, so I don't understand why it is not notified to the "OnNavigated" listener when it has indeed navigated, regardless if it affects or not the back stack.

I that is the intended behaviour, then it should be rather called something like "NavController.OnBackStackChangedListener".

Yeah, naming is hard :)

Right now, NavController.OnNavigatedListener gives you a NavDestination that always equals navController.getCurrentDestination(). It doesn't give you what action you triggered, arguments, or anything else (including operations that don't change getCurrentDestination(), such as singleTop actions or activity destinations), so I could definitely see this more as a OnDestinationChangedListener.

I'll reopen this to track renaming the listener to something more appropriate to what it actually is doing or updating the documentation to make its role more clear.

Project: platform/frameworks/support
Branch: androidx-master-dev

commit fcc0c6059e31f7e53396db8cce0ac62d76a1c2d8
Author: Ian Lake <ilake@google.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 30 13:14:58 2018

    Rename OnNavigatedListener
   
    The callback to onNavigated() is not only
    called in result to a navigate() call, but
    is actually called whenever any navigation
    event happens, be it single top navigation
    events or popBackStack events.
   
    Therefore the name should reflect what is
    actually happening.
   
    Test: existing tests still pass
    BUG: 118670572
    Change-Id: Iad45d646e859428a4f744992821916906ca2d34f

M       navigation/integration-tests/testapp/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/testapp/NavigationActivity.kt
M       navigation/runtime/api/1.0.0-alpha08.txt
M       navigation/runtime/api/current.txt
M       navigation/runtime/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/NavController.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/AbstractAppBarOnDestinationChangedListener.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/ActionBarOnDestinationChangedListener.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/CollapsingToolbarOnDestinationChangedListener.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/NavigationUI.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/ToolbarOnDestinationChangedListener.java

https://android-review.googlesource.com/838931
https://goto.google.com/android-sha1/fcc0c6059e31f7e53396db8cce0ac62d76a1c2d8

Project: platform/frameworks/support
Branch: androidx-master-dev

commit 1a5551e0e3145b1e309577a1282d28fa1b14e956
Author: Ian Lake <ilake@google.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 03 13:22:31 2018

    Correct naming of add/removeOnDestinationChangedListener
   
    Ensure that the add and remove methods
    use the same naming convention as the
    listener class itself
   
    Test: ./gradlew bOS
    BUG: 118670572
    Change-Id: I71dd174f7abd3a870c12b26c0aef64ff1512ceea

M       navigation/integration-tests/testapp/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/testapp/NavigationActivity.kt
M       navigation/runtime/api/1.0.0-alpha08.txt
M       navigation/runtime/api/current.txt
M       navigation/runtime/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/NavController.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/AbstractAppBarOnDestinationChangedListener.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/CollapsingToolbarOnDestinationChangedListener.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/NavigationUI.java
M       navigation/ui/src/main/java/androidx/navigation/ui/ToolbarOnDestinationChangedListener.java

https://android-review.googlesource.com/839441
https://goto.google.com/android-sha1/1a5551e0e3145b1e309577a1282d28fa1b14e956

We've renamed the listener to OnDestinationChangedListener to make it more clear that it is only called when NavController's getCurrentDestination() or its arguments change, precluding activity destinations.