Compiling Espresso these days

John Lombardo

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Nov 27, 2015, 4:46:17 PM11/27/15

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I've been working on compiling Espresso for awhile now, and so far no luck. What I've tried so far:

Directly adding the Espresso sources to my project. I've almost gotten this to work by adding lots of other source that espresso relies on, but there's one file I can't find at all: `DaggerBaseLayerComponent`. It's referenced by GraphHolder.java. I literally can't find this anywhere -- in the Android sources or on the internet.
By compiling the Android sources. To do this, I've downloaded the master branch and modified my repo manifest to add the platform-frameworks-testing package back in. This also fails to build. I don't think I can use the master branch, I probably need to go back to something else, but I'm not sure what.

So my bottom line question is this: How do I build espresso from source?

John Lombardo

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Nov 27, 2015, 4:56:58 PM11/27/15

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This link shows that the source was explicitly removed from the Android sources, but I can't find any explanation as to where it went or how it should be compiled now.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/testing

Stephan Linzner

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Nov 27, 2015, 5:59:18 PM11/27/15

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Hey John,

just follow our instructions on the ATSL page on how to build/test from source and contribute to the project.

Thanks,

Stephan

On 27 November 2015 at 13:56, John Lombardo <john.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

This link shows that the source was explicitly removed from the Android sources, but I can't find any explanation as to where it went or how it should be compiled now.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/testing

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slinzner

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Nov 27, 2015, 5:59:53 PM11/27/15

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Hey John,

just follow our instructions on the ATSL page on how to build/test from source and contribute to the project.

Thanks,

Stephan

John Lombardo

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Nov 27, 2015, 6:52:38 PM11/27/15

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I thought I had looked everywhere, but apparently I did not. Thank you!

John Lombardo

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Nov 28, 2015, 1:46:52 PM11/28/15

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In case anyone else finds this thread -- these are the commands I had to execute after following the instructions Steve mentioned:

Create a symlink named version.gradle to frameworks/testing/version.gradle
ln -s frameworks/testing/version.gradle version.gradle
Create a symlink to your copy of adb and friends. This assumes that adb is on your path.
(BIN=out/host/darwin-x86 ; mkdir -p $BIN ; cd $BIN ; ln -s $(dirname $(which adb)) bin)

You can now run the `./gradlew connectedAndroidTest` command.

BTW, since it's not entirely obvious -- if you want to create distributable JARs the command is