How can I hook onto onCreate of the Activity in an Android instrumentation test?

Question

I want to execute some code in my instrumentation test after my Activity's onCreate but before its onResume . Is there any way I can achieve this in the test code, without modifying production code?

My test class extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 . It's a gradle project running under the latest Android Studio.

Answer 1

I want to execute some code in my instrumentation test after my Activity's onCreate but before its onResume.

Try onStart() :

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