Using android gradle + dagger to run instrumentTests

Question

I have began using Android Studio and gradle recently for android development and find it much better overall than eclipse/ant or maven. However I\'ve recently began trying to i

Answer 1

Took quite awhile but I finally got it working. I had to do the following:

1. Declare my dependencies like so:

   dependencies {
     compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'
     compile 'com.squareup.dagger:dagger-compiler:1.1.0'
     compile 'com.squareup.dagger:dagger:1.1.0'
   
     instrumentTestCompile files('libs/espresso-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar','libs/testrunner-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar','libs/testrunner-runtime-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar')
     instrumentTestCompile files('libs/hamcrest-core-1.1.jar', 'libs/hamcrest-library-1.1.jar', 'libs/hamcrest-integration-1.1.jar')
     instrumentTestCompile 'com.google.guava:guava:14.0.1'
   }
   

2. Copy the hamcrest jars from here

3. Remove the license files from the jars like this (or else you'll get an error about duplicate LICENSE.txt files)

   zip -d hamcrest-core-1.1.jar LICENSE.txt
   zip -d hamcrest-library-1.1.jar LICENSE.txt
   

4. Run gradle connectedCheck

A few things to note:
- Hamcrest 1.3 didn't work for me, got an error about a matcher was missing - Crazy how many hoops I had to jump through to get here.
- Good luck getting this to play well with android studio.