Android Manifest Instrumentation

Issue

I have a android test project setup to test my android project. In the android test project's manifest, I have an entry for instrumentation. It looks like:

<instrumentation
    android:name="android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner"
    android:targetPackage="com.company.android" />

I'm curious what the point of this entry is, and particuarly what the purpose of android:targetPackage="com.company.android" is for. I ask, because I refactored the old project and put classes into different packages, so I'm curious on what I need to update this value to... is it suppose to point the the package where the class that extends android.app.Application is at?

Solution

It tells the build system where to access the actual project you are going to test.

This is necessary because you need access to all your Activities and classes without having extra copies around.

Info about it is scattered around in: http://developer.android.com/tools/testing/testing_android.html

Answered By - Shellum