Android, Infinitely repeating animation vs. instrumentation.waitForIdleSync()

Question

I have project with a custom view which is animated. The animation is a simple alpha fade which repeats itself infinitely. The view is a cursor, and it

Answer 1

I had this issue and reported it as a bug on AOSP, but I don't expect anyone will fix it any time soon. My workaround was to remove the animation (which was challenging, as it was the indefinite progress view). One option for your case would be to change the animation timing in your tests so it doesn't animate every frame. Not ideal, but better than freezing I suspect.