Gradle Android Unit Tests That Depend On An 'aar'

Want to be able to depend on an AAR for my unit tests in a Gradle-Android project. I do not want to manually include the external library source or binaries inside my project (for

Solution 1:

I ran into this problem and found a solution - include the classes.jar from the exploded bundle (.aar) in the build folder. I don't think will help with finding resources in .aar dependencies though.

testLocalCompile fileTree(dir: "$project.buildDir/exploded-bundles", include: "**/classes.jar")

Edit: Since Android Gradle build tools 0.9.0 the dependency has changed to:

androidTestCompile fileTree(dir: "$project.buildDir/exploded-aar", include: "**/classes.jar")

As of Android Gradle plugin 0.12.2:

testLocalCompile fileTree(dir: "$project.buildDir/intermediates/exploded-aar/", include:"**/classes.jar")