Espresso intent test failing

Question

I\'m learning android instrumentation testing with espresso. I have an app which has a drawer menu and there is a menu called About. I was testing click on that menu item and co

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved it by using IntentsTestRule instead of ActivityTestRule. IntentsTestRule is a subclass of ActivityTestRule. Set up your @Rule which creates the activity like so:

@Rule
public IntentsTestRule mActivity = new IntentsTestRule(MyActivity.class) {
    @Override
    protected Intent getActivityIntent() {
        ...
    }
};

See the following project for more information: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-testing/tree/master/ui/espresso/IntentsBasicSample