Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Material Design specification describes that in the lanscape mode or for tablets it is fine to show item label next to the item icon:

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Currently BottomNavigationView does not provide any option for changing item label positioning. It would be great to have an attribute like labelOrientation="horizontal|vertical" or labelGravity="start|top|end|bottom"
Thank you for reaching out, I asked the design team to provide detailed spec so we can implement this feature.
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Thank you for reaching out, I asked the design team to provide detailed spec so we can implement this feature.