Gradle Clean Build and connectedAndroidTest

Question

I'm playing with Gradle for Android recently... It's powerful but painful at the same time.

Initially, I followed Roboletric sample project, trying to make a gradle-based Android project with Robolectric testing support. After a while, I realise Robolectric doesn't even support API 19. Thus, I remove it from my build.gradle and try to use Junit and Instrumentation tests.

I'm not familiar with either Android or Gradle or Roboletric. I only know that before I removed Robolectirc, whenever I made a build ./gradlew clean build I was able to run all the tests. But now, I have to call ./gradlew connectedAndroidTest in addition to run tests while the build command only calls check but no test is run and thus always show SUCCESSFUL

I have attached my configuration here:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.10.+'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'android'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion '19.1.0'

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 9
        targetSdkVersion 19
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        packageName "com.example"
        testPackageName "com.example.tests"
    }

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

    productFlavors {
        flavorDimensions "AppPackage", "AppEnvironment"

        appBasic {
            flavorDimension "AppPackage"
        }

        staging {
            flavorDimension "AppEnvironment"
        }
        production {
            flavorDimension "AppEnvironment"
        }
    }

    sourceSets {
        androidTest.setRoot('src/test')
        androidTestStaging.setRoot('src/testStaging')
        androidTestProduction.setRoot('src/testProduction')
    }

}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:20.0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.0.0'
}

Answer 1

By default the connectedAndroidTest task don't run when you run the build task.

By default the check task run when you run the build task.

All you have to do is to add an explicit dependency to run the connectedAndroidTest task when the check task run :

check.dependsOn connectedAndroidTest