Unlike the other subprojects, this project is designed to run against the Android toolchain rather than standard Kotlin/Java. This means it should be opened in Android Studio, rather than IntelliJ.
This project was introduced to provide a basic level of assurance for Mockito's correct operation on the Android platform.
This project features the following:
- the minimum app project prerequisites - it is not intended to be run as an actual app
- basic JUnit tests
- basic instrumented tests
While JUnit tests run on the local machine, instrumented tests in the Android context run on a device, which can be an emulator. Due to the Android runtime design, the implementation options for instrumented tests are constrained compared to normal JUnit tests; for example, it is not possible to mock final classes.
Libraries and their versions are defined in ext.library-versions.gradle. It is here that you can specify which version of Mockito to test.
ByteBuddy is an optional declaration. If you specify '0' for the ByteBuddy version, e.g.
bytebuddy_version = '0'
then ByteBuddy will be as declared by Mockito's own dependencies.
However you are able to specify a newer version if you would like to test an update, and you can do this by specifying a real version, e.g.:
bytebuddy_version = '1.11.7'
This will cause ByteBuddy to be directly included in this project using the specified version.
This override is subject to Gradle's dependency resolution process where it reconciles different versions - Mockito's library inclusion vs. the project one. This usually means the newest version is accepted; therefore if you specify a version of ByteBuddy that's older than Mockito's one, it's unlikely to apply it. You would need to use Gradle's resolutionStrategy definition to force this.