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'
}

Comienza con la configuración de Android Studio/Robolectric descrita en el issue, incluida la nueva URL de AndroidDriver y las dependencias de Gradle. Investiga las clases incompletas de Apache HTTP client y el enfoque propuesto de Jarjar, y compáralo después con un proyecto de pruebas APK independiente. El trabajo estará terminado cuando se haya decidido un enfoque reproducible o se haya documentado una limitación.