What's the uiautomator version that will support Android SDK Level 16?

Question

The UiAutomator v2.+ version supports only SDK level 18+ and according to documentation uiautomator shipped first with SDK Level 16. I need a way to include that version in my gradle file rather than v2.1.1. androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.uiautomator:uiautomator-v18:2.1.1'

Answer 1

Add this specific AndroidManifest.xml into androidTest folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
          package="your.package">

    <uses-sdk
        android:targetSdkVersion="22"
        android:minSdkVersion="16"
        tools:overrideLibrary="android.support.test.uiautomator.v18"/>

</manifest>

Trick here is done with:

tools:overrideLibrary marker

A special marker that can only be used with uses-sdk declaration to override importing a library which minimum SDK version is more recent than that application's minimum SDK version. Without such a marker, the manifest merger will fail. The marker will allow users to select which libraries can be imported ignoring the minimum SDK version.