Unable to find alert element

[brunobar79]

Description

I've been trying out Detox lately and everything is working so far except for the fact that I haven't been able to get an Alert element or its button. For example:

I've tried the following combinations:

• by.label('Error')
• by.type('_UIAlertControllerActionView')
• by.text('Error')
• by.label('OK')

and even by label and type as it's mentioned here

Steps to Reproduce

• create a new project using react-native init
• Follow the setup instructions in the website
• Add a button that triggers an Alert component onPress
• Try to get access that element using detox

I always get the error
"Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 120000ms specified by jest.setTimeout."

Detox, Node, Device, Xcode and macOS Versions

• Detox: 8.1.6
• React Native: 0.56.0
• Node: v9.9.0
• Device: iPhone X (simulator)
• Xcode: 9.4
• macOS: High Sierra

Device and verbose Detox logs

' FAIL  e2e/create-password.spec.js (128.452s)
  Create Password
    ✕ should validate that the passwords match (120779ms)

  ● Create Password › should validate that the passwords match

    Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 120000ms timeout specified by jest.setTimeout.

      22 | 	// });
      23 |
    > 24 | 	it('should validate that the passwords match', async () => {
         | 	 ^
      25 | 		element(by.id('input-password')).tap()
      26 | 		element(by.id('input-password')).typeText('foo');
      27 | 		element(by.id('input-password-confirm')).typeText('bar\n');

      at Spec (node_modules/jest-jasmine2/build/jasmine/Spec.js:85:20)
      at Suite.<anonymous> (e2e/create-password.spec.js:24:3)
      at Object.<anonymous> (e2e/create-password.spec.js:3:1)

Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
Tests:       1 failed, 1 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        128.686s, estimated 129s'

[brunobar79]

I removed "await" before the tap action and it worked