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Android runs one instrumentation per package: a second `am instrument`
force-stops the first ("stop com.kuhy.a11ydump due to start instr"), and
so does `install -r`. The live two-session run on the Pixel caught two
sessions' dumps killing each other ("Process crashed"). dump_display now
runs install + instrument under a per-serial flock; a dump takes well
under a second, so queueing costs nothing noticeable.
After the fix the same 300 s run had 0 failures across 659 actions, and
the real screen and both apps stayed where they were.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WpA6wW2DKiovQADTdjWJoH
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# android_ui — drive Android apps by element, never by coordinates
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Shared across every repo with an Android surface (`~/src/screen-locker`'s
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workout_app, `~/src/todo`, `~/src/dufs-cloud/app`). Works against a plain release APK
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on a physical device over `adb` — no root, no emulator, no Flutter debug
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connection, no change to app source.
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## Why
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Driving an app by tapping pixel positions read off a screenshot fails in ways
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that look like success. All of these were observed in one session
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(2026-08-10), verifying the workout app's Firebase restore:
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| Failure | What it looks like |
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| ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Tap lands on an unfocused field | Typed text goes nowhere; nothing errors; the next screenshot shows an empty box |
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| Soft keyboard opens | A field moves 1572 → 1319; every coordinate captured a step earlier is wrong |
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| Widget sits behind the keyboard | The tree reports its _laid-out_ position (1549) not its real one (1939) — a 390px error that taps a letter key |
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| Screenshot scaling | The harness renders 1080×2400 at 900×2000, so every read coordinate needs a manual ×1.2 |
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| Typing into a filled field | `input text` inserts at the cursor: `old@example.comnew@example.com` |
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Two device quirks are handled rather than documented, because both produced
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false results before they were understood:
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- `uiautomator dump` returns **only the `EditText` nodes** while a Flutter text
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field holds focus. The button you are about to tap is simply missing, and it
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stays missing across retries — a naive retry loop never converges.
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- `KEYCODE_BACK` is a **route pop** in Flutter, not a keyboard dismiss. It
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navigates out of the screen and discards typed input.
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## Use
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```bash
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export PYTHONPATH=~/src/testsAndMisc
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python3 -m python_pkg.android_ui dump
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python3 -m python_pkg.android_ui find "Connect Firebase"
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python3 -m python_pkg.android_ui --exact tap "Back"
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python3 -m python_pkg.android_ui wait "Connected." --timeout 30
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python3 -m python_pkg.android_ui focus
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```
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Every subcommand exits non-zero and names the query on failure, so a script can
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tell a real failure from a successful no-op.
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```python
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from python_pkg.android_ui import AndroidUi
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ui = AndroidUi() # or AndroidUi(serial="23181JEGR08034")
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ui.tap("Connect Firebase", exact=True)
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ui.type_into_field(0, "kuhy@example.com") # verifies the field changed
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ui.wait_for("Connected.", timeout=30)
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```
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## Guarantees
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- **Ambiguity is an error.** A query matching 0 or >1 elements raises; it never
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silently acts on the first match. (`tap "Back"` correctly refuses when
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"OFFLINE BACKUP" is also on screen — use `--exact`.)
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- **Coordinates are never reused.** Every action re-reads the tree immediately
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before acting, and `tap` closes the keyboard first when one is up.
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- **Typing is verified.** `type_into` / `type_into_field` re-read the field and
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raise if the contents did not change. They clear before typing, so a filled
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field is replaced, not appended to.
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- **Empty fields are findable.** An empty `EditText` has no text, content-desc
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or resource-id; it is kept anyway, addressable by position via
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`editable_fields()` / `type_into_field(index, …)`.
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- **Partial trees are retried,** and `keyboard_is_up()` distinguishes "element
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absent" from "element behind the keyboard".
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## Known gaps
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- A widget with no accessibility label cannot be targeted at all. The workout
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app's Settings gear is one — that is an a11y bug in the app, and this tool
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surfacing it is the point. Add a `Semantics(label: …)` and it becomes
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addressable.
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- **But check `hint` first.** Material/Flutter text fields publish their
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label as `hint` and leave text/content-desc empty; those ARE addressable
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(since 2026-08-27) and need no app change. Adding a `Semantics(label:)`
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wrapper to such a field is actively harmful — it emits a SECOND labelled
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node at the same rect, and wrapping in `MergeSemantics` to collapse them
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removes the `hint` from Android's tree entirely, making the whole form
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anonymous. Verified on the manual-workout form; reverted.
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- Verify any a11y change with `adb exec-out uiautomator dump`, never with
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`flutter test`: the widget test asserts on Flutter's internal
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`SemanticsNode`, while this tool reads Android's `AccessibilityNodeInfo`.
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Nine widget tests passed green on the build whose on-device labels had
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just gone empty.
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- Scrolling is not yet modelled: a widget outside the viewport is not in the
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tree. Scroll with `adb shell input swipe` first, or add `scroll_to()`.
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## One phone, many sessions
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Sessions share the phone by working on separate displays. By default every
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command drives the real screen (display 0) and takes this session's
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`pkg:__screen__` lease (`python_pkg.phone_lease`: owner = the nearest
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ancestor `claude` process, 180 s past the last call). A call from another
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session waits up to 60 s, then exits 3 naming the holder. Do not retry in a
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loop.
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`--display self` drives this session's virtual display instead
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(`~/.claude/scripts/phone_vd.sh start <package>` creates it) and takes only
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that app's lease, so several sessions can act at once:
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android-ui --display self dump
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android-ui --display self tap "Save"
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`uiautomator dump` sees display 0 only, so on a virtual display the tree
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comes from the `com.kuhy.a11ydump` instrumentation helper (`A11yDump.java`,
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`_a11y_helper.py`): built once into `~/.cache/android_ui/` and installed
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with `adb install -r -t` on first use. Its package must stay in
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phone-focus-mode's whitelist, or the focus-owner sweep hides it. Android
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runs one instrumentation per package, so a second `am instrument` kills
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the first: dumps of one phone queue behind a host-side `flock`
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(`~/.cache/android_ui/a11ydump-<serial>.lock`). Every
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`input` call carries `-d` (0 for the real screen), because input without it
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goes to whichever display last took focus. A numeric `--display` that is
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another session's virtual display is refused.
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Raw `adb` from a Claude Bash call is covered too: the
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`~/.claude/hooks/phone_guard_pretool.sh` hook (`python_pkg.phone_guard`)
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takes the matching lease or blocks the call. See the `phone-deploy` skill,
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section 3, for the full rules.
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