> I just saw that this thread is about non-maven projects. I am actually
> using maven.
> Does this exception make more sense in a maven context? Perhaps some
> configuration error in the pom?
> I will put together a minimal example to reproduce this problem and post
> it here later this week.

> On Monday, October 29, 2012 2:54:55 PM UTC+1, Phil Goodwin wrote:

>> I'll bet it's a classloader problem. The RobolectricTestRunner uses a
>> special classloader to instrument all of the Android jars and then loads
>> all of the tests along with a copy of itself in that classloader. After
>> that it delegates all of the calls made to itself to its copy within the
>> classloader via the RobolectricTestRunnerInterface. It appears that
>> something has gone wrong with that mechanism. Is there more than one copy
>> of Robolectric floating around by any chance?

>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Thomas H <thomas.he...@googlemail.com>wrote:

>>> Did you find a solution for this?
>>> I have the same problem:

>>> java.lang.ClassCastException:
>>> com.xtremelabs.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner cannot be cast to
>>> com.xtremelabs.robolectric.internal.RobolectricTestRunnerInterface

>>> Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2012 00:50:15 UTC+2 schrieb Leif Ashley:

>>>> I just found the same line, and it is 234. Below is my whole class,
>>>> with some lines removed to protect the innocent. But we never get to the
>>>> setup method anyway because the constructor fails to complete. I agree
>>>> though, the class and structure looks fine, and I'm not sure why this would
>>>> throw the cast exception.

>>>> @RunWith(**RobolectricTestRunner.class)
>>>> public class Test1 {

>>>>     @Before
>>>>     public void setUp() throws Exception {
>>>>        ...
>>>>     }

>>>>     @Test
>>>>     public void test() throws Exception {
>>>>        ...
>>>>     }
>>>> }

>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 6:44:38 PM UTC-4, Chuck Greb wrote:

>>>>> I have never seen this error before. It looks like it's coming from
>>>>> this line but I'm not sure why. Are you using a custom test runner or class
>>>>> loader?

>>>>> https://github.com/pivotal/**robolectric/blob/master/src/**
>>>>> main/java/com/xtremelabs/**robolectric/**RobolectricTestRunner.java#**
>>>>> L234<https://github.com/pivotal/robolectric/blob/master/src/main/java/com/...>

>>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 6:28:31 PM UTC-4, Leif Ashley wrote:

>>>>>> Thanks again... that gets me further along, but now I get:

>>>>>> java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassCastException:
>>>>>> com.xtremelabs.robolectric.**RobolectricTestRunner cannot be cast to
>>>>>> com.xtremelabs.robolectric.**internal.**
>>>>>> RobolectricTestRunnerInterface

>>>>>> It looks like the RobolectricTestRunner didn't implement the **RobolectricTestRunnerInterface
>>>>>> in this jar. Sound right to you?

>>>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 6:24:21 PM UTC-4, Chuck Greb wrote:

>>>>>>> Highlight robolectric-1.2-**SNAPSHOT-jar-with-**dependencies.jar
>>>>>>> and then from the bottom-right panel choose the "Artifact Information" tab
>>>>>>> and then you will see a button to Download.

>>>>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 6:19:32 PM UTC-4, Leif Ashley wrote:

>>>>>>>> Cool - I'll look at the starter. I have it somewhat running with a
>>>>>>>> quick test setup of my own, but I think I'm missing dependencies. I found
>>>>>>>> this on their site:

>>>>>>>> "If you’re not using Maven to build your project, you’ll probably
>>>>>>>> want to grab the latest robolectric-X.X.X-jar-with-**dependencies.jar
>>>>>>>> from Sonatype<https://oss.sonatype.org/index.html#nexus-search;quick~robolectric>
>>>>>>>> "

>>>>>>>> But for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to download the jar
>>>>>>>> from Sonatype. lol

>>>>>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 6:13:12 PM UTC-4, Chuck Greb wrote:

>>>>>>>>> Using IntelliJ, you can either include Robolectric as a module
>>>>>>>>> (source) or a library (jar). Robolectric should be added as a dependency to
>>>>>>>>> your application module (above Android platform, scope TEST).

>>>>>>>>> You should setup the tests as Java/JUnit (not an Android project
>>>>>>>>> test). Robolectric tests live inside the same module as your application.
>>>>>>>>> No emulator/device is required.

>>>>>>>>> Also, check out the AndroidIntelliJStarter project for a good
>>>>>>>>> example of integration as a submodule.

>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/pivotal/**AndroidIntelliJStarter<https://github.com/pivotal/AndroidIntelliJStarter>

>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>> Chuck

>>>>>>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 5:50:56 PM UTC-4, Leif Ashley wrote:

>>>>>>>>>> I am wanting to use Robolectric in our development efforts and
>>>>>>>>>> I'm a bit confused on a few points.

>>>>>>>>>> The examples all show maven. However we are using Idea to
>>>>>>>>>> run/test via the IDE launch and scripted ant scripts for test builds.
>>>>>>>>>> What's the best method to unit test an android application with Robolectric
>>>>>>>>>> in this senario? Do I create a separate java project or an Android test
>>>>>>>>>> project? Personally, I want to have it just run as a local test (i.e. not
>>>>>>>>>> running on a USB/simulator device).