How to use tools:overrideLibrary with multiple libraries

Question

I have found out that the solution is to create a second AndroidManifest.xml, just for the tests. It has to be saved into the tests directory and needs to contain only the overrideLibrary statement:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
          package="${applicationId}">
    <uses-sdk tools:overrideLibrary="android.app, android.support.test, android.support.test.rule, android.support.test.espresso, android.support.test.espresso.idling, android.support.test.uiautomator.v18"/>
</manifest>

If you are using a different directory for your tasks, you can specify it this way in your gradle file:

androidTest.setRoot('src_test_uiautomator')

The AndroidManifest.xml file has to be in the root of that directory, the test sources in the “java” subdirectory.

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