Programmatically setting genymotion gps during testing causes "SecurityException: invalid package name" when setting latitude

Question

When testing, I am setting the lat long via Genymotion like so:

 package com.mypackage.name;

 public class TestGps extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2<MyClass>{

    ... //setup just calls super.setup();

    public void testLocationButton(){
       Gps gps = GenymotionManager.getGenymotionManager(getInstrumentation().getContext()).getGps();
       gps.setStatus(Gps.Status.ENABLED);
       gps.setLatitude(40.7127); // the error happens here
       gps.setLongitude(74.0059);
   }
}

I get the following issue when run:

java.lang.SecurityException: invalid package name: com.mypackage.name
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1546)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1499)
at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:582)
at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:867)
at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:490)
at com.genymotion.api.Gps.waitForTargetLocation(Gps.java:271)
at com.genymotion.api.Gps.setLatitude(Gps.java:134)

Answer 1

In a test Instrumentation.getContext() returns the context of the tests. To access the context of the app being tested, you need to call Instrumentation.getTargetContext() instead. You should also consider using InstrumentationRegistry. This is now the preferred access point for Instrumentation instances.