Gradle commands fail on API 23 Google API emulator

I can't seem to get Gradle commands from the command line to work with the API 23 Google API emulator image (Google APIs ARM (armeabi-v7a)) - I always get a com.android.ddmlib.ShellCommandUnresponsiveException.

Steps to reproduce:

Create an AVD with API 23 Google APIs ARM (armeabi-v7a)
Clone https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-utils (or use your own project)
Run gradlew installDebug from the command line

You'll see:

:demo:assembleDebug :demo:installDebug FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong:

Execution failed for task ':demo:installDebug'. com.android.builder.testing.api.DeviceException: com.android.ddmlib.ShellCommandUnresponsiveException

If you run gradlew connectedCheck you'll see a similar error:

What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':library:connectedDebugAndroidTest'. com.android.builder.testing.api.TestException: com.android.builder.testing.api.DeviceException: com.android.ddmlib.ShellCommandUnresponsiveException

I can install/run the project and tests from Android Studio (1.4) without any problems.

Gradle commands seem to run fine on the API 21 Google API emulator image from the command line.

Here is an example failure on Travis for API 23 Google API emulator image:

https://travis-ci.org/barbeau/android-maps-utils/builds/83233500

...and an example successful build when using the API 21 Google API emulator image:

https://travis-ci.org/barbeau/android-maps-utils/builds/83234555

The only difference between the two builds is the Google API emulator API level of 23 vs. 21:

https://github.com/barbeau/android-maps-utils/commit/a5eecd7e7a4fc899ecd5eaeae6826414fefeae70

EDIT

I've opened an AOSP issue here on this problem:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=190200

Short answer

Android Gradle Plugin had a hardcoded timeout value that was too low.

Google fixed it in version 2.0.0-beta3:

Will be in 2.0.0-beta3.

So what do we put in build.gradle to set this timeout value?

Currently it's all attached to android.adbOptions.timeOutInMs.

Sample: Google project Increasing ADB timeout and adding Travis-ci support. It works!.

Previous response

It's the same issue that has been reported here

Read the workaround from the unity3 developer about the hardcoded and low timeout here

and star the issue

You are right. It's not a Travis-ci issue, to reproduce it, you only need to create an armeabi-v7a emulator and try to install any app locally from gradle command.

Further information here, the update3 of my answer

Update:

You can avoid the installVariant tasks and this issue using adb:

./gradlew clean
./gradlew assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleDebugAndroidTest
adb install app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug.apk
adb install app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug-androidTest-unaligned.apk
adb shell am instrument -w com.google.samples.apps.topeka.test/android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner

It works:

...
:app:assembleDebugAndroidTest

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 19.787 secs
2413 KB/s (4204090 bytes in 1.701s)
    pkg: /data/local/tmp/app-debug.apk
Success
1984 KB/s (1058902 bytes in 0.521s)
    pkg: /data/local/tmp/app-debug-androidTest-unaligned.apk
Success

com.google.samples.apps.topeka.activity.SignInActivityTest:.
com.google.samples.apps.topeka.activity.quiz.EntertainmentQuizTest:.
com.google.samples.apps.topeka.activity.quiz.GeneralKnowledgeQuizTest:..