running-instrumented-tests-with-androidjunit4

running-instrumented-tests-with-androidjunit4 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skydoves/android-testing-skills. It costs 218 tokens per session (4,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to setting up Android instrumentation tests, which run on an Android device or emulator, with the AndroidJUnit4 test runner.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure the test source set and runner, isolate tests with Test Orchestrator, grant runtime permissions, apply test-size settings, and run tests through adb.
Why use it?
It prevents tests from failing before their checks run because of incorrect runner, Gradle, orchestrator, permission, or command-line setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to configure the test source set and runner, isolate tests with Test Orchestrator, grant runtime permissions, apply test-size settings, and run tests through adb.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/running-instrumented-tests-with-androidjunit4
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add skydoves/android-testing-skills --skill running-instrumented-tests-with-androidjunit4
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skydoves/android-testing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 218 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,559 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00109 $0.02279
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00912
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00456

Measured 9d ago against content hash e9f1d3d6dd46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

running-instrumented-tests-with-androidjunit4 scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

instrumentation/runner/running-instrumented-tests-with-androidjunit4/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

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Running Instrumented Tests with AndroidJUnit4 — Get the Runner Stack Right

Instrumentation tests fail before any assertion runs when the runner stack is misconfigured: a deprecated AndroidJUnit4 import, the orchestrator on androidTestImplementation instead of androidTestUtil, the deprecated androidx.test.InstrumentationRegistry instead of androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry. This skill encodes the exact dependency matrix, the runner Gradle config, and the supporting annotations and rules.

When to use this skill

  • The IDE flags androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnit4 as @Deprecated, or the test compiles but emits the deprecation warning.
  • am instrument returns INSTRUMENTATION_FAILED: <pkg>/androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner or Test runner not found.
  • Test Orchestrator is configured in Gradle but tests still share a single instrumentation process (orchestrator silently disabled).
  • The user passes -e size small / -e package com.foo via am instrument and the test ignores it — RunnerArgs is unwired.
  • A test needs ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION / RECORD_AUDIO etc. and the user is hand-rolling permission grants from adb.
  • The user wants to skip a test below API 26 and is searching for the annotation.

When NOT to use this skill

  • The user is launching an Activity or driving lifecycle — see ../../scenarios/launching-activities-with-activityscenario/SKILL.md.
  • The user is interacting with Views — see ../../espresso/writing-espresso-tests/SKILL.md.
  • The user is driving system UI or another app — see ../../uiautomator/cross-app-tests-with-uiautomator/SKILL.md.
  • The user runs JVM (Robolectric / pure JUnit) tests — see ../../../jvm-tests/runner/configuring-junit4-on-android/SKILL.md.
  • The user is choosing what to test in the first place — see ../../../fundamentals/strategies/applying-testing-strategies/SKILL.md.

Prerequisites

  • Android Gradle Plugin module (com.android.application or com.android.library).
  • A src/androidTest/ source set on disk (./gradlew :module:connectedDebugAndroidTest should resolve).
  • An emulator or physical device (or Firebase Test Lab / managed devices) — the runner cannot execute on the JVM.
  • JUnit 4 on the test classpath (junit:junit:4.13.2); JUnit 5 requires a Vintage engine bridge and is out of scope.

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 lines

Changes

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 303 lines · 218 tokens per session scan A e9f1d3d6dd46

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running-instrumented-tests-with-androidjunit4 is a skill published in the GitHub repository skydoves/android-testing-skills (319 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 218 tokens to every session and 4,559 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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