AppRoot held the selected tab in `remember`, which survives recomposition and nothing
else. MainActivity declares no configChanges, so every rotation and every resize
destroys and recreates the Activity, and the tab went back to Convert each time.
The KDoc directly above that line is the argument for why it matters: from targetSdk 37
Android ignores screenOrientation, resizableActivity and the aspect-ratio limits on any
display at least 600dp wide, and the Android 16 opt-out is gone, so the app is resized
and rotated whether or not it is ready. The shell was written for that case and then
lost its own state to it. Both ViewModels are Activity-scoped and come back intact, so
a conversion in flight was never at risk -- only the tab, which is what makes this
visibly wrong rather than merely stale.
rememberSaveable, with a Saver that writes the constant's NAME. Three ways to make an
enum saveable and the reasons for this one:
- autoSaver already accepts it. An enum is Serializable, so plain
`rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(Destination.CONVERT) }` compiles, works, and
passes the restoration test below unchanged. That is a reason to be explicit, not a
reason not to be: nothing in the declaration says Destination has to stay
Serializable, so the implicit route keeps working right up until someone makes it a
value class or a sealed interface -- and then stops, silently, on a path only a
rotation reaches.
- The ordinal is a position, not an identity. Inserting a tab between Convert and Join
would redefine every value already written down. A name only changes when someone
renames a constant, which is an edit that shows up in a diff. It also reads as
itself in a Bundle dump.
- An unknown name restores to null, which rememberSaveable treats as "nothing saved"
and falls back to Convert. That is exactly what a downgrade or a renamed constant
leaves behind, and Convert is the right answer for it.
The test runs on the JVM, which took two changes to reach.
AppRoot and Destination are `internal` rather than `private` -- the unit test source set
is a friend of main, so this stays invisible outside the module -- and AppRoot takes its
`content` as a defaulted parameter instead of calling Content() directly. Nothing in the
app passes it. It is there because both screens resolve a ViewModel, which builds a
WorkManager and a media probe, and none of that has anything to do with which tab is
selected; the test hands in a tagged Box and drives the shell alone. Content() stays
private and is still what the app gets.
compose-ui-test-junit4 joins the JVM test source set. It was already in the catalog for
androidTest, it is inside the prerelease guard via its androidx. group, and its version
comes from the BOM, so this adds no new pinning argument. It is there because
createComposeRule() runs under Robolectric: a red test in androidTest is one nobody on
this host can execute (CLAUDE.md), which is not a loop anyone can work in.
ui-test-manifest is NOT repeated on that source set. It supplies the ComponentActivity
the rule launches, and the existing debugImplementation entry already puts it in the
merged manifest the unit tests build against -- checked by removing the line and
watching AppRootRestorationTest stay green, rather than assumed.
What the test does and does not prove. StateRestorationTester's
emulateSavedInstanceStateRestore() disposes the composition and rebuilds it, so anything
held only by `remember` is gone -- that is what makes it bite. It saves into an in-memory
map rather than parcelling through a Bundle, so it cannot tell a name from an ordinal
from autoSaver. The saved representation is pinned separately by three pure-JVM tests
over the Saver itself, which is where the choice above is actually held down.
Verified by writing it red first, against the restructured AppRoot with `remember` still
in place: all three restoration tests failed at the post-restore assertion with
"Expected exactly '1' node but could not find any node that satisfies:
(TestTag = 'content:JOIN')", while every assertion before the restore -- including the
bar's own selected state -- passed. Six new tests, 186 green in all.
Not addressed here, and deliberately: MainActivity still declares no configChanges, and
should not. Handling the configuration change is not the same as keeping one enum, and
Compose's saved-state machinery is the mechanism the platform intends for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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