Is it possible to set startDestination conditionally using Android Navigation Architecture Component(Android Jetpack)?

Finally, I got a solution to my query…

Put below code in onCreate() method of Activity.

Kotlin code

val navHostFragment = (supportFragmentManager.findFragmentById(R.id.home_nav_fragment) as NavHostFragment)
val inflater = navHostFragment.navController.navInflater
val graph = inflater.inflate(R.navigation.nav_main)
//graph.addArgument("argument", NavArgument)
graph.setStartDestination(R.id.fragment1)
//or
//graph.setStartDestination(R.id.fragment2)

navHostFragment.navController.graph = graph

Java code

NavHostFragment navHostFragment = (NavHostFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.home_nav_fragment);  // Hostfragment
NavInflater inflater = navHostFragment.getNavController().getNavInflater();
NavGraph graph = inflater.inflate(R.navigation.nav_main);
//graph.addArgument("argument", NavArgument)
graph.setStartDestination(R.id.fragment1);

navHostFragment.getNavController().setGraph(graph);
navHostFragment.getNavController().getGraph().setDefaultArguments(getIntent().getExtras());


NavigationView navigationView = findViewById(R.id.navigationView);
NavigationUI.setupWithNavController(navigationView, navHostFragment.getNavController());

Additional Info

As @artnest suggested, remove the app:navGraph attribute from the layout. It would look something like this after removal

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <androidx.fragment.app.FragmentContainerView
        android:id="@+id/home_nav_fragment"
        android:name="androidx.navigation.fragment.NavHostFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:defaultNavHost="true" />

</FrameLayout>

In the case of a fragment tag used instead of FragmentContainerView, the above changes remain the same

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