Android functional testing with Dagger

Question

I’m trying to test an Activity with Mockito & Dagger. I have been able to inject dependencies to Activity in my application but when testing the Activity, I have not been a

Answer 1

I use Mockito and Dagger for functional testing. The key concept is that your test class inherits from ActivityUnitTestCase, instead of ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2; the latter super-class call onStart() life-cycle method of Activity blocking you for inject your test doubles dependencies, but with first super-class you can handle the life-cycle more fine-grained.

You can see my working examples using dagger-1.0.0 and mockito for test Activities and Fragments in:

https://github.com/IIIRepublica/android-civicrm-test

The project under test is in:

https://github.com/IIIRepublica/android-civicrm

Hope this helps you