Robolectric tanks on Application objects that load JNI libraries. Can I get a workaround?

Question

The Application object for my Android app loads a JNI library, and Robolectric doesn\'t seem to like that. When I go to run my tests Robolectric craps out and I

Answer 1

As @Jared pointed out, the solution @Christopher gave doesn't work for Robolectric 2 or 3.

The solution I ended up using was to add the environmental variable:

ROBOLECTRIC=TRUE

to the build configuration for my tests. (Run -> Edit Configurations, Environmental Variables).

Then you check for that environmental variable before loading problematic libraries. For example:

class MyClass {
    if(System.getenv("ROBOLECTRIC") == null) {
        System.loadLibrary("libname");
    }
}

Obviously you won't be able to test any code that relies on that library, but at least some testing will be possibel!