Does Appium support jetpack compose app automation

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Hi there, our new app development on Android will be using Jetpack compose for few screens, I wanted to know can we use appium for the same?

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Yes. https://discuss.appium.io/search?context=topic&context_id=40884&q=Jetpack%20compose%20order%3Alatest&skip_context=true

And https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver#jetpack-compose-support

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If you are using UIAutomator2 the main thing you need to be sure of is that your devs put a TestTag on all elements you need to interact with and that they set testTagsAsResourceId = true somewhere high in the hierarchy of composables so that it flows down to all elements.

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Thank you @Aleksei, that gives information. can appium directly interact with the apk on the device as it does on layout views app or do we need to still build dev code and then use appium?

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Thank you @iparry7979, very helpful for us as dev is just starting, we can ask them to include testtag