Android Studio: Testing: Library dependencies that have been compiled using java 8 or above

Question

please help. I am having a really horrible time with setting up my testing for android studio.

I have downloaded the calculator example to practice cumcumber code t

Answer 1

Ok for any one that is having the same problem. I sussed it! (I think!) its lead on to other problems with the program but at least i have the test running and its communicating with the device and reading through the tests without having paddy. The tests however are coming up with a brand new problem (for another question, another day) New problem if anyone is interested:

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Action will not be performed because the target view does not match one or more of the following constraints:
at least 90 percent of the view's area is displayed to the user.

im guessing that its something to do with not all the buttons not in view (not my design! FYI) so we adjust this tomorrow.

Now on to the solution(ish)

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/issues/893: comment from programmerdave on 18 Nov 2015 helped with the gradle setup.

This brought a whole new bug!

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformResourcesWithMergeJavaResForDebug'.
> com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.builder.packaging.DuplicateFileException: Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/maven/com.squareup.okhttp/okhttp/pom.properties
    File1: C:\Users\kyleparker\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.crashlytics.android\crashlytics\1.1.13\e821eafa1bf489a26bdb71f95078c26785b37a1\crashlytics-1.1.13.jar
    File2: C:\Users\kyleparker\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.squareup.okhttp\okhttp\2.4.0\40340c0748190fe897baf7bffbc1b282734294e5\okhttp-2.4.0.jar

But managed to fix this quite quickly. thanks to these guys https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=194980

Anyway apparently two different issues that created havoc (a day and half).

Heres the gradle for the Calkulator demo (link in question) - it all feels a bit messy and if anyone has a nice cleaner solution please let me know

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 21
    buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "cucumber.cukeulator"
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 21
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"

        testApplicationId "cucumber.cukeulator.test"
        testInstrumentationRunner "cucumber.cukeulator.test.Instrumentation"
    }

    packagingOptions {

        //these are the ones that fixed it for me
        exclude 'META-INF/maven/com.google.guava/guava/pom.properties'
        exclude 'META-INF/maven/com.google.guava/guava/pom.xml'

        //but im not going to  remove my first attempt just in case ;)
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
    }

    sourceSets {
        androidTest {
            assets.srcDirs = ['src/androidTest/assets']
        }
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.0'
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:testing-support-lib:0.1'

    androidTestCompile('info.cukes:cucumber-android:1.2.4') {
        exclude module: 'cucumber-jvm-deps'
    }

    androidTestCompile('info.cukes:cucumber-picocontainer:1.2.4') {
        exclude module: 'cucumber-jvm-deps'
    }

    // androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:23.1.1'
    // androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2'

    androidTestCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-jvm-deps:1.0.3'

}

So all in all it seems to be that jvm-deps......well who knew