androidx.navigationevent has reached 1.0.0-beta01 which means it's becoming API-stable, and LocalNavigationEventDispatcherOwner and its friends could help retrieve back event processing for predictive back support.
This must be investigated, and there's a chance this is a new responsibility of a StateChanger to actually make NavigationEvent know about it.
Unless it is NavigationEvent that must be observed to trigger StateChanger state changes (unlikely except for SimpleStateChanger).
We will see?
Also see https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1ohaas4/how_to_make_the_same_animation_of_the_predictive/nlnpngs/