@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ test.each<Partial<SnapshotNode>>([
   { value: 'Draft' },
   { identifier: 'create' },
   { contentDescription: 'Create a draft' },
+  { text: '' },
   { enabled: false },
   { selected: true },
   { checked: true },
 
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ const PRESENTATION_SCALAR_FIELDS = {
   label: true,
   value: true,
   contentDescription: true,
+  text: true,
   identifier: true,
   enabled: true,
   editable: true,
 
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ test('get attrs digest compacts the node under a ref target', () => {
 test('attrs digest keeps explicit false/zero/empty field facts; unavailable ones stay absent (#2288)', () => {
   const fieldFacts = {
     value: '',
+    text: '',
     editable: false,
     password: false,
     hintShowing: false,
 
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ const SELECTOR_DIGEST_NODE_FIELDS = [
   'label',
   'value',
   'contentDescription',
+  'text',
   'identifier',
   'enabled',
   'selected',
 
@@ -300,6 +300,12 @@ export type RawSnapshotNode = {
    * filled or hinted field) is carried here for consumers that want the accessible name.
    */
   contentDescription?: string;
+  /**
+   * Android view text when it is not already the `label`: the empty string on a view that has
+   * a content description and no text, where the description is the label. Absent otherwise,
+   * so `text ?? label` is the text the view shows.
+   */
+  text?: string;
   identifier?: string;
   rect?: Rect;
   enabled?: boolean;
 
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import type { RawSnapshotNode, Rect } from '@agent-device/kernel/snapshot';
 type AndroidPassiveNodeFacts = Pick<
   RawSnapshotNode,
   | 'contentDescription'
+  | 'text'
   | 'enabled'
   | 'selected'
   | 'heading'
 
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ function normalizeAndroidUiHierarchyNode(
       value: androidFieldValue(attrs),
       passiveFacts: {
         contentDescription: attrs.desc && attrs.desc !== label ? attrs.desc : undefined,
+        text: label && !attrs.text ? '' : undefined,
         enabled: attrs.enabled,
         selected: attrs.selected,
         heading: attrs.heading,
 
@@ -35,10 +35,11 @@ test('Android WebDriver facts treat invalid state attributes as false', () => {
 // by, so a filled field used to read as a node labelled with its own value and no value at all:
 // `toHaveValue` saw "" on a field holding "Ada Lovelace".
 test("Android WebDriver facts name a node by its text, carry a content description beside it, and read a field's text as its value", () => {
-  const [field, label] = parseWebDriverSourceFacts(
+  const [field, label, described] = parseWebDriverSourceFacts(
     '<hierarchy>' +
       '<android.widget.EditText text="Ada Lovelace" content-desc="Name field" hint="Your name" bounds="[0,0][100,40]" />' +
       '<android.widget.TextView text="Ada Lovelace" bounds="[0,120][100,160]" />' +
+      '<android.widget.TextView text="" content-desc="Name field" bounds="[0,160][100,200]" />' +
       '</hierarchy>',
     'android',
   ).nodes;
@@ -55,9 +56,10 @@ test("Android WebDriver facts name a node by its text, carry a content descripti
     ['Ada Lovelace', 'Ada Lovelace', 'Name field', 'Your name', undefined, undefined],
   );
   assert.deepEqual(
-    [label!.label, label!.value, 'editable' in label!],
-    ['Ada Lovelace', undefined, false],
+    [label!.label, label!.value, 'editable' in label!, 'text' in label!, 'text' in field!],
+    ['Ada Lovelace', undefined, false, false, false],
   );
+  assert.deepEqual([described!.label, described!.text], ['Name field', '']);
 });
 
 test('Android WebDriver facts read a hinted field as empty, a masked field as a password, and editability as unavailable when unreported', () => {
 
@@ -194,22 +194,25 @@ function sourceNodeFromAttributes(
  * How a node is named. An Android node is labelled by its text and falls back to the content
  * description only when it has none, as `normalizeAndroidUiHierarchyNode` reads the same
  * attributes for the native helper; a content description beside visible text travels as
- * `contentDescription`. A hinted empty field is labelled by its hint, which is its text. XCUITest
- * names a node by `label`, else `name`.
+ * `contentDescription`, and a node labelled by its description carries an empty `text`. A hinted
+ * empty field is labelled by its hint, which is its text. XCUITest names a node by `label`, else
+ * `name`.
  */
 function labelFacts(
   attrs: Record<string, string>,
   platform: WebDriverSourcePlatform,
-): Pick<RawSnapshotNode, 'label' | 'contentDescription'> {
+): Pick<RawSnapshotNode, 'label' | 'contentDescription' | 'text'> {
   if (platform === 'ios')
     return { label: firstWebDriverAttribute(attrs, ['label', 'text', 'name']) };
   const description = nonEmptyWebDriverAttribute(attrs['content-desc']);
-  const label = nonEmptyWebDriverAttribute(attrs.text) ?? description;
+  const text = nonEmptyWebDriverAttribute(attrs.text);
+  const label = text ?? description;
   return {
     label,
     ...(description !== undefined && description !== label
       ? { contentDescription: description }
       : {}),
+    ...(label !== undefined && text === undefined ? { text: '' } : {}),
   };
 }
 
 
@@ -136,6 +136,26 @@ test('an Android content description beside text is carried, and one that is the
   assert.equal(result.nodes[3]?.contentDescription, undefined);
 });
 
+test('an Android view labelled by its content description carries an empty text, and one labelled by its text carries none', () => {
+  const xml = `<hierarchy>
+  <node class="android.widget.TextView" package="com.example.app" text="" content-desc="saved_task" bounds="[0,0][390,44]" visible-to-user="true"/>
+  <node class="android.widget.TextView" package="com.example.app" text="saved_task" bounds="[0,60][390,104]" visible-to-user="true"/>
+  <node class="android.widget.TextView" package="com.example.app" text="Release checklist" content-desc="saved_task" bounds="[0,120][390,164]" visible-to-user="true"/>
+  <node class="android.widget.TextView" package="com.example.app" text="" resource-id="empty" bounds="[0,180][390,224]" visible-to-user="true"/>
+</hierarchy>`;
+
+  const result = parseUiHierarchy(xml, 800, { raw: true });
+
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[0]?.label, 'saved_task');
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[0]?.text, '');
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[1]?.label, 'saved_task');
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[1]?.text, undefined);
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[2]?.label, 'Release checklist');
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[2]?.text, undefined);
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[3]?.label, undefined);
+  assert.equal(result.nodes[3]?.text, undefined);
+});
+
 test('interactive Android snapshots keep a fixed sibling outside filtered scroll content (#1377)', () => {
   const xml = `<hierarchy>
   <node class="android.widget.FrameLayout" bounds="[0,0][400,800]" visible-to-user="true">