Robolectric tanks on Application objects that load JNI libraries. Can I get a workaround?

Question

The Application object for my Android app loads a JNI library, and Robolectric doesn\'t seem to like that. When I go to run my tests Robolectric craps out and I

Answer 1

One option for apps with heavyweight Application classes that don't work well with Robolectric is to create an empty Application object and use this for your Robolectric tests:

Something like this:

public void EmptyApp extends Application { 
}

Then your test setup can look like this:

@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner.class)
@Config(application = EmptyApplication.class, manifest = "src/main/AndroidManifest.xml", sdk = 23)   

Since you have referenced the manifest, all of the resources will still be available in Context#getString(int id) and so on.