How to remove/hide place for icon of menu item android

Question

I am newer in android I am using bottomNavigationView, and in menu i don't need to use icons, because of this, an empty space appeared. I've tried decrease height of menu and of bottomNavigationView but nothing is helped. It is my BottomNavigationView

Menu

Result

Any links, comments, explanations will hepl me

Answer 1

I found decision

added in my build.gradle

implementation 'com.github.ittianyu:BottomNavigationViewEx:2.0.4'
implementation "com.android.support:design:28.0.0"

Changed BottomNavigationView to BottomNavigationViewEx

and in my Fragment

val bottomNavigationView = requireView().findViewById<BottomNavigationViewEx>(R.id.bottom_navigation_view_ex)
bottomNavigationView.setIconVisibility(false)