How to detect whether android app is running UI test with Espresso

Question

I am writing some Espresso tests for Android. I am running in the the following problem:

In order for a certain test case to run properly, I need to disable some fea

Answer 1

How about a flag in BuildConfig class?

android {
    defaultConfig {
        // No automatic import :(
        buildConfigField "java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean", "IS_TESTING", "new java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean(false)"
    }
}

Add this somewhere in your test classes.

static {
    BuildConfig.IS_TESTING.set(true);
}