Robolectric - Failed to load class: org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowMultiDex

Question

I am setting up Robolectric for a project that uses multi dex. I am using Robolectric 3.0 RC3, which should support Multidex without throwing a "Multi dex installation failed" exception.

testCompile('org.robolectric:robolectric:3.0-rc3')

My test test is in src / test / java / SandwichTest:

@RunWith(RobolectricGradleTestRunner.class)
public class SandwichTest {
  @Test
  public void firstTest() { }
}

I have a global configuration file for loading ShadowMultiDex into src / test / resources with the name robolectric.properties according to the instructions on the Robolectric website :

shadows=org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowMultiDex

When I run my SandwichTest sample, I get this exception:

Could not load class: org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowMultiDex
java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load class: org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowMultiDex
at org.robolectric.annotation.Config$Implementation.parseClass(Config.java:147)

It looks like Robolectric is finding my configuration file, but cannot load the ShadowMultiDex class. Trying to add shadow multidex module to my gradle file manually:

 testCompile('org.robolectric:shadows-multidex:3.0-SNAPSHOT')

or

 testCompile('org.robolectric:shadows-multidex')

.

, ?

Answer 1

, version Gradle.

:

testCompile('org.robolectric:shadows-multidex')

:

testCompile('org.robolectric:shadows-multidex:3.0')

: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/org/robolectric/shadows-multidex/

:

shadows=org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowMultiDex

src/test/resources/robolectric.properties. custom Shadows.