Use in android studio

What I am trying to do is to use it directly as Robolectric unit tests in Android Studio. The problem comes when I create a new AndroidDriver():

new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

The selenium driver uses the apache-http client which in Android is not complete so there are missing classes from the preloaded one. My next step is to use Jarjar to stitch together a new version of http client in the Android SDK jar.

Not sure if it worths the pain, but I would like to discuss if this sounds like a good idea (fake the UI tests as unit tests)?

A different option is of course to create a different project only to test the apk.

Fyi piece from my .gradle:

testApt 'com.squareup.dagger:dagger-compiler:1.2.2'
testCompile 'com.squareup.dagger:dagger:1.2.2'
testCompile ('io.appium:java-client:2.2.0'){
    exclude module: 'guava'
    exclude module: 'httpmime'
    exclude module: 'gson'
}

Start with the Android Studio/Robolectric setup described in the issue, including the new AndroidDriver URL and the Gradle dependencies. Investigate the incomplete Apache HTTP client classes and the proposed Jarjar approach, then compare that with a separate APK test project. Done would be a decided, reproducible approach or a documented limitation.