Inconsistent behaviour with toga.Selection value attribute between Windows and Android

[IneededAnAccountToDoStuff]

Describe the bug

On Windows, when a selection widget is created with a list containing an empty string (eg: toga.Selection(items=['1','a','','4']) ), the widget returns '' for the "value" attribute.

On Android, the selection's "value" attribute is set to None if the selection item is an empty string.

I don't have MacOS, iOS, or Linux devices so I don't know what happens there.

Steps to reproduce

0. Create Beeware Project
1. Go to the app.py file
2. Create a list "list_1" containing an empty string
3. Create the base app class with the startup function and setup main box + window
4. In the startup function, create a selection with the items being that of list_1. Store it as a class attribute for future access.
5. Define a class function that outputs the selection value via print or info_dialog.
6. Create Button to call the output function
7. Add Selector & Button to main box
8. Compile the code for both Windows and Android & launch them.
9. Select the empty item of the selector
10. Press the button
11. Watch as the devices disagree on the value.

Expected behavior

I would expect the selector value attribute to be an empty string as that was what the item was, and that is what the selector widget understands when values are written to it.

Screenshots

The source code I used:

"""
Testing Crashes
"""
import toga
class TestLab(toga.App):
    def startup(self):
        main_box=toga.Box()
        self.select=toga.Selection(items=['A','B','0','','1','+','-'])
        main_box.add(self.select)
        main_box.add(toga.Button('Get',on_press=self.valuedump))
        self.main_window=toga.MainWindow(title=self.formal_name)
        self.main_window.content=main_box
        self.main_window.show()
    async def valuedump(self,widget):
        q=self.select.value
        print('GET',q,type(q))
        self.main_window.info_dialog('Selection Value',f'Value: "{q}"\n Type: {type(q)}')
def main():return TestLab()

On Windows:

On Android:

Environment

Windows 8.1 / Android 11

• Python version: 3.10.0
  • Briefcase: 3.11
  • Toga: 0.3.0.dev8

Logs

Windows:
briefcase.2022_12_27-17_09_47.run.log

Android:
briefcase.2022_12_27-17_17_14.run.log

Additional context

No response

[freakboy3742]

Thanks for the report; looks like an edge case that we've missed in testing. The fault is almost certainly with the get_value() handler and the way it's interpreting the return value from the underlying Android API.