Android testCompile project not working

Question

I am using Robolectric and the "android-unit-test" plugin in my android project. I have multiple modules (eg foo and bar ) and would like to use the same test runner across all the modules. To achieve this I created a Test module to hold my test runner and any custom shadow classes. In foo's build.gradle I have testCompile project (":main:Test") however android studio will not import my runner unless I also include androidTestCompile (":main:test") . Furthermore, when I run ./gradlew test from the command line I get various errors saying that my test runner and shadow classes cannot be found. Anyone have any advice?

Answer 1

With your given information I guess you missed one little aspect: test classes appear not in jars.

When your shared TestRunner is under src/test/java then other modules will not see it. When I'm correct then place you TestRunner at src/main/java and all modules should have access to our support classes.

Here is also an example where i did the same https://github.com/nenick/AndroidAppDevelopment