Espresso-contrib cannot inflate RecyclerView with IllegalStateException (Unable to find LayoutManager) about android-test-kit

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Can you please bump the runner/rules dep to 0.3:

androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:runner:0.3'
androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:rules:0.3'
androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2'
androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-intents:2.2'

Does this fix the issue?

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Jun 2015 at 3:37

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Bumping rules/runner to 0.3 doesn't seem to change anything.

As an experiment, I also tried to set the LayoutManager in the xml:

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/my_list"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollbars="vertical"
        android.support.v7.recyclerview:layoutManager="android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager"
        tools:listItem="@layout/my_list_item" />

This made no difference. I've also played with adding/removing different 
attributes on the RecyclerView, but still haven't had any luck.

I've attached screenshots to show exactly what is happening where the error 
occurs.

It appears the version of recyclerview that is included by espresso-contrib is 
messing with the version I've included in my dependencies (22.2.0), and is 
attempting to reference a default layoutmanager resource that doesn't exist in 
my project. I am able to work around the issue by excluding transitive 
dependencies for espresso-contrib:

    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:2.2') {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support'
    }

Original comment by [email protected] on 9 Jun 2015 at 12:21

Attachments:

• running-app.png
• instrumentation-with-espresso-contrib.png

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espresso-contrib uses 22.2.0 for android.support.*, so this should not be an 
issue. I'll have a closer look and try to reproduce it.

Original comment by [email protected] on 9 Jun 2015 at 2:44

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Same thing here:

android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class 
android.support.v7.widge
                            t.RecyclerView
                         E      at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2325)
                         E      at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2390)
                         E      at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:151)
                         E      at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1303)
                         E      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
                         E      at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
                         E      at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5257)
                         E      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                         E      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
                         E      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
                         E      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)
                         E  Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:633)
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:743)
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:806)
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:809)
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:504)
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:414)
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:365)
                         E      at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:249)
                         E      at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:106)
                         E      at com.bizzby.app.refactor.presentation.jobcreator.JobCreatorActivity.onCreate(JobCreatorActivity.java:66)
                         E      at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5990)
                         E      at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1106)
                         E      at android.support.test.runner.MonitoringInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(MonitoringInstrumentation.java:494)
                         E      at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2278)
                         E      ... 10 more
                         E  Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
                         E      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Native Method)
                         E      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:288)
                         E      at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:607)
                         E      ... 23 more
                         E  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Binary XML file line #17: Unable to find LayoutManager android.support.v7.widget.@2131
                            427752
                         E      at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.createLayoutManager(RecyclerView.java:500)
                         E      at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.<init>(RecyclerView.java:438)
                         E      at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.<init>(RecyclerView.java:404)
                         E      ... 26 more
                         E  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.support.v7.widget.@2131427752" on path: DexPathList[[zip f
                            ile "/system/framework/android.test.runner.jar", zip file "/data/app/com.bizzby.app.debug.test-1/base.apk", zip file "/data/app/co
                            m.bizzby.app.debug-1/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.bizzby.app.debug-1/lib/x86, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
                         E      at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
                         E      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
                         E      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:469)
                         E      at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.createLayoutManager(RecyclerView.java:480)
                         E      ... 28 more
                         E      Suppressed: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Invalid name: android.support.v7.widget.@2131427752
                         E          at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method)
                         E          at java.lang.BootClassLoader.findClass(ClassLoader.java:781)
                         E          at java.lang.BootClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:841)
                         E          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:504)
                         E          ... 30 more


Using:

    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:runner:0.3'
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:rules:0.3'
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2'
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:2.2') 

Original comment by [email protected] on 11 Jun 2015 at 5:46

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In case anybody has the same issue, I found this trick that seems to fix the 
problem:
androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:2.0') {
    exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'appcompat'
    exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-v4'
    exclude module: 'recyclerview-v7'
}

Source of the trick:
https://androidresearch.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/an-introduction-to-espresso/

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jun 2015 at 4:53