“ 2) Popping everything off the stack is always a sign that you've built your graph incorrectly. That's on us though as we haven't documented well enough how to do conditional navigation (for example, the B->C sign in flow). https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111762510 is our tracking bug for updating the conditional navigation page ( https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/navigation/navigation-conditional ). ”
“ - Splash screen should be using a splash theme (e.g., https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/splash-screens-the-right-way/ ) and not be in your graph at all ”
“ I've confirmed that this is fixed in alpha08 as a result of https://android-review.googlesource.com/833717 and a number of other internal changes. ”