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Android Testing in Android Unit Testing - Now Featuring Robolectric! Testing with Robolectric

Posted by smitha sanehalli
smitha sanehalli
862 Points

setupActivity throwing error

Cannot run any roboelectric test because of this error.

java.lang.RuntimeException: android.content.pm.PackageParser$PackageParserException: Failed to read manifest from /Users/../.../myproject/app/build/intermediates/apk_for_local_test/debugUnitTest/packageDebugUnitTestForUnitTest/apk-for-local-test.ap_

at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowPackageParser.callParsePackage(ShadowPackageParser.java:57)
at org.robolectric.android.internal.ParallelUniverse.setUpApplicationState(ParallelUniverse.java:149)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.beforeTest(RobolectricTestRunner.java:377)
at org.robolectric.internal.SandboxTestRunner$2.evaluate(SandboxTestRunner.java:252)
at org.robolectric.internal.SandboxTestRunner.runChild(SandboxTestRunner.java:130)
at org.robolectric.internal.SandboxTestRunner.runChild(SandboxTestRunner.java:42)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
at org.robolectric.internal.SandboxTestRunner$1.evaluate(SandboxTestRunner.java:84)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:137)
at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:68)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:47)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:242)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:70)

Caused by: android.content.pm.PackageParser$PackageParserException: Failed to read manifest from /Users/xx/xxx/xx/myproject/app/build/intermediates/apk_for_local_test/debugUnitTest/packageDebugUnitTestForUnitTest/apk-for-local-test.ap_ at android.content.pm.PackageParser.parseBaseApk(PackageParser.java:1353) at android.content.pm.PackageParser.parseMonolithicPackage(PackageParser.java:1299) at android.content.pm.PackageParser.parsePackage(PackageParser.java:1022) at android.content.pm.PackageParser.parsePackage(PackageParser.java:1042) at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowPackageParser.callParsePackage(ShadowPackageParser.java:31) ... 17 more