Setting a custom assets directory for unit testing in Android Studio

Question

We have the not uncommon requirement of executing unit tests of our Android application which make use of assets which are only required for unit testing.

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Answer 1

I am using Android Studio 1.3 + Gradle 1.2.3 and src/androidTest/assets didn't work for me. I placed everything in src/debug without any changes to build.gradle and it worked. Android seemingly picks up up items from the debug folder automatically while building the apk.