Navigation drawer: How do I set the selected item at startup?

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Use the code below:

navigationView.getMenu().getItem(0).setChecked(true);

Call this method after you call setNavDrawer();

The getItem(int index) method gets the MenuItem then you can call the setChecked(true); on that MenuItem, all you are left to do is to find out which element index does the default have, and replace the 0 with that index.

You can select(highlight) the item by calling

onNavigationItemSelected(navigationView.getMenu().getItem(0));

Here is a reference link: http://thegeekyland.blogspot.com/2015/11/navigation-drawer-how-set-selected-item.html

EDIT
Did not work on nexus 4, support library revision 24.0.0. I recommend use

navigationView.setCheckedItem(R.id.nav_item);

answered by @kingston below.

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