Failing tests when including the library

[Romain Piel]

When including application insights in our project, our robolectric tests are failing:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not find any resource  from reference ResName{com.myapp:style/Theme_AppCompat_Light_NoActionBar} from style StyleData{name='AppTheme_Base', parent='Theme_AppCompat_Light_NoActionBar'} with theme null
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowAssetManager$StyleResolver.getParent(ShadowAssetManager.java:456)
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowAssetManager$StyleResolver.getAttrValue(ShadowAssetManager.java:394)
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowResources.getOverlayedThemeValue(ShadowResources.java:294)
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowResources.findAttributeValue(ShadowResources.java:283)
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowResources.attrsToTypedArray(ShadowResources.java:186)
...
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

At first glance it looks like an issue related to Robolectric but we're using plenty other aar libraries and we don't have this issue. Removing the dependency to application insights fixes the issue. So I'm wondering if it could be related to the content of the manifest or something...

The only way I found to fix the issue is to put this dirty hack in our gradle.properties:

android.library.reference.1=../app/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.microsoft.azure/applicationinsights-android/1.0-beta.3

It looks pretty similar to this issue although support libraries don't complain for me.

[Romain Piel]

Oh right, this is because of the dependency to appcompat-v7. I could fix the issue by excluding it:

compile ('com.microsoft.azure:applicationinsights-android:1.0-beta.3') {
    exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'appcompat-v7'
}

Any reason why app insights depends on appcompat?

[Ben Scholtysik]

Hi Romain,

you're right, it's the compat-lib.
I'm investigating the dependency right now because I don't think it's required anymore (it used to be a required dependency in an earlier version).

By the way: our beta.4 is available since yesterday, let us know if you run into any issues. :)

[Romain Piel]

awesome! will do, thanks

[Ben Scholtysik]

The dependency to compat lib has been moved to the sample project.