Robolectric says “AndroidManifest.xml not found”

Question

While trying to get Robolectric RC3 to work in Android Studio, I get

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: build/intermediates/bundles/debug/AndroidManifest.xml not found or not a file; it should point to your project's AndroidManifest.xml
at org.robolectric.manifest.AndroidManifest.validate(AndroidManifest.java:120)
at org.robolectric.manifest.AndroidManifest.getResourcePath(AndroidManifest.java:469)
at org.robolectric.manifest.AndroidManifest.getIncludedResourcePaths(AndroidManifest.java:475)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.createAppResourceLoader(RobolectricTestRunner.java:479)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.getAppResourceLoader(RobolectricTestRunner.java:471)
at org.robolectric.internal.ParallelUniverse.setUpApplicationState(ParallelUniverse.java:73)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.setUpApplicationState(RobolectricTestRunner.java:421)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner$2.evaluate(RobolectricTestRunner.java:234)

I tried

@Config(manifest = "app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml", constants = BuildConfig.class, sdk=21)

and I tried setting the manifest location in my TestRunner, nothing worked. In the file system I see that the manifest is in

./app/build/intermediates/manifests/full/debug/AndroidManifest.xml

not in the location Robolectric is looking for it. At one point the manifest just got ignored, then a similar issue occurred for resources, the app or Robolectric couldn't find a raw resource my app uses. This is in my build file:

   sourceSets {
    main {
        java.srcDirs = ['src/main/java']
        resources.srcDirs = ['src/main/res']
    }
    test {
        java.srcDirs = ['src/test/java', 'src/main/java']
        resources.srcDirs = ['src/test/res', 'src/main/res']
    }
}

How do I tell Robolectric where to look for a manifest, and more importantly, where to look for resources?

Edit: I have checked out Robolectric from github, I've built it, installed it in my local .m2 repo, the gradle file now refers to the local SNAPSHOT build, and I made sure Gradle doesn't get a new version from a remote repo. Then I copied the RobolectricGradleTestRunner to my project, I have changed the lines where the file locations are defined: it didn't contain the module name. Now it works.

Answer 1

Note that intellij 16 EAP has a bug around this $MODULE_DIR$ variable (it's pointing to the wrong place), causing the tests to fail with this exception. See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-149802#tab=History. Should get fixed mid Jan 2016.

Answer 2

That's correct @Christine. I am also facing the exact problem. And the thing is build process is not creating bundles folder at all under intermediates. And custom robolectric runner also didn't work. Here is the custom runner I used. I haven't still figured out the solution but it seems that the problem may be related to build tool version that needs to used.

[Update] Changing working directory in my unit test run configuration to point to the module root directory which is being tested worked for me.[Update]