How to disable animations in code when running Espresso tests

Question

Has anybody managed to disable animations through code when running Espresso tests? I\'ve been trying to follow the instructions in this webpage (linked to from he

Answer 1

I finally got this to work. Here is a Gist listing the required steps:
https://gist.github.com/daj/7b48f1b8a92abf960e7b

The key step that I had missed was running adb to grant the permission:

adb shell pm grant com.mypackage android.permission.SET_ANIMATION_SCALE    

Adding the permission to the manifest and running the reflection steps did not seem to be enough on their own.