Android: Skip Gradle “testClasses” task for a dependency project

Question

I have followed this guide to create a JUnit test file for my main Android module (let\'s call it \"module-a\"), in Android Studio v1.4.

My \"module-a\" has a dependency

Answer 1

I did not find a way to skip the testClasses task for module-b: it seems that actions started from Android Studio (like running a JUnit test) run Gradle commands that cannot be modified. In my case:

Information:Gradle: Executing tasks:
[:module-a:prepareFree_flavorDebugUnitTestDependencies,
 :module-a:generateFree_flavorDebugSources,
 :module-a:mockableAndroidJar,
 :module-a:assembleFree_flavorDebug,
 :module-a:assembleFree_flavorDebugUnitTest,
 :module-b:testClasses]

I found a workaround for my problem, though:

Add the following code to module-b build.gradle:

task testClasses {
    doLast {
        println 'This is a dummy testClasses task'
    }
}