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'
}

issue に記載されている Android Studio/Robolectric のセットアップから始め、新しい AndroidDriver URL と Gradle の依存関係を含めて確認します。不完全な Apache HTTP client クラスと提案されている Jarjar アプローチを調査し、その後、別個の APK テストプロジェクトと比較します。再現可能なアプローチを決定するか、制限事項を文書化できれば完了です。