Jetpack Compose launch issues

[unickq]

Hi there,

I'm trying to set up Appium with Espresso for my project and am never able to connect. UiAutomator2 has no issues.

I found an identical one, with an qual problem that I have with mine - https://github.com/alejandrorosas/android-app-template - with JetPack compose 1.7.6.

I'm able to build and the app with appium driver, however I always receive socket hang up exception with different classnames in logs. I tried to fix those by adding espressoBuildConfig as tutorial suggests, but no luck.

{
  "appium:platformVersion": "15.0",
  "appium:automationName": "Espresso",
  "platformName": "Android",
  "appium:forceEspressoRebuild": true,
  "appium:noSign": false,
  "appium:showGradleLog": true,
  "appium:app": "/Users/unickq/Downloads/android-app-template/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk",
  "appium:espressoBuildConfig": "{\"additionalAndroidTestDependencies\": [\"androidx.fragment:fragment:1.8.5\",\"androidx.compose.runtime:runtime:1.7.6\",\"androidx.compose.ui:ui-android:1.7.6\"]}"
}

Error log I have:

[3060c4d3][EspressoDriver@a439] Espresso server is online. The initialization process took 2095ms
[3060c4d3][EspressoDriver@a439] Starting the session
[3060c4d3][EspressoDriver@a439] Matched '/session' to command name 'createSession'
[3060c4d3][EspressoDriver@a439] Proxying [POST /session] to [POST http://127.0.0.1:8300/session] with body: {"capabilities":{"firstMatch":[{"platform":"LINUX","webStorageEnabled":false,"takesScreenshot":true,"javascriptEnabled":true,"databaseEnabled":false,"networkConnectionEnabled":true,"locationContextEnabled":false,"warnings":{},"desired":{"platformName":"Android","platformVersion":"15.0","automationName":"Espresso","forceEspressoRebuild":true,"noSign":false,"showGradleLog":true,"app":"/Users/unickq/Downloads/android-app-template/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk","espressoBuildConfig":"{\"additionalAndroidTestDependencies\": [\"androidx.fragment:fragment:1.8.5\",\"androidx.compose.runtime:runtime:1.7.6\",\"androidx.compose.ui:ui-android:1.7.6\"]}","ensureWebviewsHavePages":true,"nativeWebScreenshot":true,"newCommandTimeout":3600,"connectHardwareKeyboard":true},"platformName":"Android","platformVersion":"15.0","automationName":"Espresso","forceEspressoRebuild":true,"noSign":false,"showGradleLog":true,"app":"/Users/unickq/Downloads/android-app-template/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk","espres...
[3060c4d3][EspressoDriver@a439] [Instrumentation] Process crashed while executing startEspressoServer(io.appium.espressoserver.EspressoServerRunnerTest):
java.lang.AbstractMethodError: abstract method "boolean androidx.compose.ui.Modifier$Element.all(kotlin.jvm.functions.Function1)"
        at androidx.compose.ui.CombinedModifier.all(Modifier.kt:403)
        at androidx.compose.ui.CombinedModifier.all(Modifier.kt:403)

I played with different versions/names as #812 suggests of androidx.compose.ui lib but still receive the same error.
.

Gradle.build has androidTestImplementation libs.androidx.test.espresso installed, and the built-in UI test works fine.

Any suggestion is appreciated; just have no idea what else to try. Thanks