Build fails when trying to include com.android.support.test.espresso (for UI testing purposes)

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I’m trying to incorporate Android’s espresso framework for integrating UI testing into my app.

Here is my build.gradle file.

dependencies {
compile ‘com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2’
}

Errors:

/var/folders/zg/j2hds645021cw2kzvfpfn16c0000gq/T/com.lukedbartolomeo.flashnotederby.fire.temp.sln (Build) →
(Build target) →
/Users/luke/Documents/flashnote android/com.lukedbartolomeo.flashnotederby.elements (default targets) →
/Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets (CooperAndroidAfterCompile target) → 

    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/AnimatorRes;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/AnyRes;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/ArrayRes;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/AttrRes;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/BinderThread;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/BoolRes;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/CallSuper;
    /Applications/Fire.app/Contents/Resources/XbuildTargets/RemObjects Software/Elements/RemObjects.Elements.Cooper.Android.targets: error : Uncaught translation error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Landroid/support/annotation/CheckResult;

     168 Warning(s)
     9 Error(s)

Project builds fine when I comment out the dependency in build.gradle.
Using:
Android SDK tools : 25.2.5
Android SDK platform tools : 25.0.3
Android SDK build tools : 25.0.2

It’s not essential that I get this working right now, but my previous UI testing framework (Calabash) has been discontinued and I thought I would give Android’s native version a try.

2

Are you using the public 9.1 release or the recent 9.1 beta? i just tried, and i can add the espresso reference to a new Android project and art builds just fine, with 9.1 build 2137. But we do have made some significant changes/improvements to how Gradle works, so ti could be that this newly fixed.

If you’re on 9.0, can i send you a newer beta build? What’s your account name on remobjects.com?

thanx,
marc

3

Hmm, actually i get a slightly different error:

                              /Users/mh/Test Projects/com.remobjects.androidapplication21/obj/Debug/Android/dependencies/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar:
                                => LICENSE.txt
                                /Users/mh/Test Projects/com.remobjects.androidapplication21/obj/Debug/Android/dependencies/hamcrest-integration-1.3.jar:
                                => LICENSE.txt
                                Found duplicate file for APK: LICENSE.txt
                                Origin 1: /Users/mh/Test Projects/com.remobjects.androidapplication21/obj/Debug/Android/dependencies/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar
                                Origin 2: /Users/mh/Test Projects/com.remobjects.androidapplication21/obj/Debug/Android/dependencies/hamcrest-integration-1.3.jar
                        Task "AndroidPack" execution -- FAILED

it looks like the two ham crest .jar files actually contain a LICENSE.txt file each, and the Android APK tools really don’t like that… Investigating…

4

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I do have access to the beta downloads page. The last time I tried one of the most recent builds, there were a lot of syntax changes (Swift 3) I was going to have to make to my project, so I stuck with the latest stable version. I might give it another shot.

5

Yeah, unfortunately Swift 3 changed the syntax quite a lot :(.