How to remove all animation of BottomNavigationView without Helper?

Question

How to remove all animation of BottomNavigationView without any Helper or proGuard and in easy way with google material dependency com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0?

Answer 1

1. We all know by default BottomNavigationView has multiple effects like horizontal translation and larger text if menu item selected.

2. We can remove the translation adding

<com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
    ...
    app:itemHorizontalTranslationEnabled="false"/>

3. We can show label and remove the translation together without app:itemHorizontalTranslationEnabled="false" this way

<com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
    ...
    app:labelVisibilityMode="labeled"/>

4. If we're not satisfied with number 3, we can still use the same text size as inactive menu by adding dimens in dimens.xml. By doing this, we pretty much has animation-free of BottomNavigationView

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
    <dimen name="design_bottom_navigation_active_text_size"
        tools:override="true">12sp</dimen>
</resources>

BONUS PROBLEM

But, there is still another problem. What if the menu text is a long text? What if it was made of 2 words?

If that is your question, you will see the long text trimmed when the menu is selected. (Please look at the third menu)

And this is the solution I got after experimenting with BottomNavigationView

void selectFragment(MenuItem item) {
    item.setChecked(true);

    int itemID = item.getItemId();
    if (itemID == R.id.menu_a) {
        pushFragment(MenuAFragment.newInstance("MENU A"));
    }
    else if (itemID == R.id.menu_b) {
        pushFragment(MenuAFragment.newInstance("MENU B"));
    }
    else if (itemID == R.id.menu_c) {
        pushFragment(MenuAFragment.newInstance("MENU C"));
    }
    else if (itemID == R.id.menu_d) {
        pushFragment(MenuAFragment.newInstance("MENU D"));
    }
    else {
        pushFragment(MenuAFragment.newInstance("MENU E"));
    }

    /**** START FROM HERE ****/

    TextView largeTextView = bottomNavigationView.findViewById(itemID)
            .findViewById(com.google.android.material.R.id.largeLabel);
    TextView smallTextView = bottomNavigationView.findViewById(itemID)
            .findViewById(com.google.android.material.R.id.smallLabel);

    smallTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    largeTextView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}

Basically, we only have to hide the largeTextView and show the smallTextView

Want to know more? Just look at this repo DisableShiftMode