Error When Stubbing Intent with Espresso

Issue

I have two applications that interact with each other through intents. I would like to verify that let's say App A correctly calls the startActivity for App B without actually launching App B. I have tried various combinations of intending and Espresso still launches App B through the intent instead of just stubbing it out. This causes the remaining tests to fail as the UI is blocked by App B. Any ideas?

@RunWith( AndroidJUnit4.class )
@LargeTest
public class MyActivityUiIntentsTest
{

    @Rule
    public IntentsTestRule<MyActivity> activityRule =
            new IntentsTestRule<>( MyActivity.class, true, false );

    @Test
    public void shouldStartOtherActivityWhenButtonClicked ()
    {
        Intents.init();
        intending( toPackage( "my.package" ) )
            .respondWith( new ActivityResult( Activity.RESULT_OK, null ) );

        activityRule.launchActivity( new Intent() );

        onView( withId( R.id.viewId ) ).perform( click() );
        intended( hasComponent( hasShortClassName( "the.other.class.name" ) ) );

        Intents.release();
    }
}

UPDATED: Code for the onClick:

@OnClick( R.id.viewId )
public void startOtherActivity ()
{
   Intent intent = new Intent();
   intent.setClassName( "my.package", "the.other.class.name" );
   startActivity( intent );
   finish();
}

Solution

Move your intending... code below launchActivity and remove .init() because the IntentsTestRule will call init for you after the activity is launched

Answered By - Nick Korostelev