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Summary

  • getByRole('button') now matches a clickable android.view.View, which is how Jetpack Compose reports Button { Text(...) }. This sits next to the existing React Native ReactViewGroup special case.
  • A role's accessible name falls back to the text of its children when the node has no label or text of its own (ARIA name-from-content). So getByRole('button', { name: 'New Order' }) finds a Compose button whose caption is on a child TextView.
  • clickable is accepted as a boolean (mobilecli) or as the string 'true' (Appium-style drivers).

Why

Compose sets android.widget.Button only on a button node with no children (AndroidComposeViewAccessibilityDelegateCompat, Compose UI 1.9.2). Any button with a caption is therefore a plain clickable View with an empty label. Before this change, getByRole('button') found no Compose buttons at all.

Needs mobilecli to report clickable: mobile-next/mobilecli#524.

Test plan

  • npm run build, npm test (963 passed), npm run lint
  • New query-engine tests: a clickable View is a button, a non-clickable View isn't, and the name comes from child text or a child label, including a regex name
  • Milliways conformance getByRole button tests on an Android emulator, with patched mobilecli: all pass (they all failed before)

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The query engine now matches clickable plain Android View elements as buttons when clickable is boolean true or string 'true'. For specified roles, name matching checks the node’s label, text, and descendant names. Tests cover these matching rules, including non-clickable Views, regex names, and list names. The locator guide documents the role mapping and name behavior.

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No new merge-blocking issue was established for Compose button matching. The previously reported documentation clarification remains a separate follow-up.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: matching Jetpack Compose buttons with getByRole('button').
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🟡 Minor · Include descendant content after an unlabeled node’s own text. · query-engine.ts:239-262

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include descendant content after an unlabeled node’s own text.

When a clickable plain android.view.View contains an unlabeled child with text: 'Child' and a grandchild named 'Grandchild', getByRole('button', { name: 'Child Grandchild' }) can miss the button. accessibleName returns 'Child' before it visits the child’s descendants.

Suggested fix
 function accessibleName(node: ViewNode): string {
-  const ownName = node.label || node.text;
-  if (ownName) {
-    return ownName;
+  if (node.label) {
+    return node.label;
   }
-  return node.children
-    .map(accessibleName)
-    .filter((name) => name !== '')
+
+  return [node.text, ...node.children.map(accessibleName)]
+    .filter((name): name is string => Boolean(name))
     .join(' ');
 }
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Update accessibleName to return a node’s label when present; otherwise combine
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`switch`, `checkbox` and `radio`, as in ARIA — then fall back to the text of their
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document descendant labels as well as text.

The query engine checks label or text on every descendant. This description mentions only child text, so it omits cases where a child has a label but no text. Describe the fallback as using descendant labels or text.

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Update the locator documentation to describe the fallback as using descendant
labels or text, not just child text; revise the sentence around the Compose
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