Exception of running JUnit tests with AndroidStudio: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android / os / Parcelable

Question

I created unit tests at http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/unit-testing-support , but when I run them, I get an exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android/os/Parcelable at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2615) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1860) at org.junit.internal.MethodSorter.getDeclaredMethods(MethodSorter.java:54) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.<init>(JUnit38ClassRunner.java:74) at org.junit.internal.builders.JUnit3Builder.runnerForClass(JUnit3Builder.java:11) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59) at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:26) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59) at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:33) at org.junit.internal.requests.FilterRequest.getRunner(FilterRequest.java:36) at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:41) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:211) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:67) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:134) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: android.os.Parcelable at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) ... 33 more 

Here is a snippet of one of my tests:

 package com.aadhk.woinvoice.bean; import com.aadhk.woinvoice.util.Constant; import junit.framework.TestCase; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class InvoiceCalculatorTest extends TestCase { private static final double EPSILON = 1e-4; public void testNoTaxNoDiscount() { Invoice invoice = new Invoice(); List<InvoiceItem> items = new ArrayList<>(); InvoiceItem item = new InvoiceItem(); 

I am using Android Studio 1.1 with Android Plugin version 1.1.3 and Gradle version 2.2.1.

My code uses the Parceable interface, but I was hoping there was a way to run these tests. The tests themselves do not use or use Parceable.

Answer 1

Just stumbled upon this using IntelliJ, but I would suggest that this would work for Android Studio as well.

I solved the problem by editing the run / debug configuration for my test and checking "Use Alternate JRE" and trying another Android platform. I would recommend trying different ones and see if it solves the problem.