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Espresso & UIAutomator - the perfect tandem

Espresso for Android is perfect and fast test automation framework, but it has one important limitation - you are allowed to operate only inside your app under test context. That means that it is not possible to automate tests for such app features like: application push notifications contact synchronization navigating from another app to your app under test, since you have to deal with other apps from the mobile device - Notification Bar, Contacts or People app, etc.  In fact it wasn't  possible until the release of UIAutomator 2.0. As stated in Android Developers blog post  - "... Most importantly, UI Automator is now based on Android Instrumentation... ".  And because of that we can run UIAutomator tests as well as Espresso tests using Instrumentation test runner. In addition to that we can combine UIAutomator tests together with Espresso tests and this gives us the real power and control over the phone and application under test. In the below exampl