NoSuchMethodError on unobfuscated APK

Details And Error Currently our Automation team uses Appium with UIAutomator2 but we are looking to make the switch to the espresso-driver to help with testing Android Recyclerviews.

On our tests that worked on the UIAutomator2 we are now seeing this error using the espresso-driver:

Proxying [POST /session] to [POST http://localhost:8200/session] with body: {"capabilities":{"firstMatch":[{"platform":"LINUX","webStorageEnabled":false,"takesScreenshot":true,"javascriptEnabled":true,"databaseEnabled":false,"networkConnectionEnabled":true,"locationContextEnabled":false,"warnings":{},"desired":{"platformName":"android","app":"/Users/rockwig/Downloads/app-debug.apk","autoGrantPermissions":true,"automationName":"espresso","deviceName":"emulator-5554","newCommandTimeout":10000,"resetKeyboard":true,"systemPort":8200,"unicodeKeyboard":true},"platformName":"android","app":"/Users/rockwig/Downloads/app-debug.apk","autoGrantPermissions":true,"automationName":"espresso","deviceName":"emulator-5554","newCommandTimeout":10000,"resetKeyboard":true,"systemPort":8200,"unicodeKeyboard":true,"deviceUDID":"emulator-5554","appPackage":"com.ourfamilywizard","appWaitPackage":"com.ourfamilywizard","appActivity":"com.ourfamilywizard.login.activity.LoginActivity","appWaitActivity":"com.ourfamilywizard.login.activity.LoginActivity"}],"alwaysMatch":{}}}
[debug] [Espresso] [Instrumentation] Process crashed while executing startEspressoServer(io.appium.espressoserver.EspressoServerRunnerTest):
[debug] [Espresso] java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No direct method <init>(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;I)V in class Lkotlin/jvm/internal/PropertyReference1Impl; or its super classes (declaration of 'kotlin.jvm.internal.PropertyReference1Impl' appears in /data/app/~~D3o6gWwUAGVZL4YA0w1cHQ==/io.appium.espressoserver.test-ELPxSt8tB_Ojzmg9MoOxlw==/base.apk)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at com.ourfamilywizard.login.activity.LoginActivity.<clinit>(Unknown Source:12)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Native Method)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.AppComponentFactory.instantiateActivity(AppComponentFactory.java:95)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory.instantiateActivity(CoreComponentFactory.java:45)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1253)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at androidx.test.runner.MonitoringInstrumentation.newActivity(MonitoringInstrumentation.java:798)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3353)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3601)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2066)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7656)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
[debug] [Espresso] 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)

Background/ What we already tried: We did see this previous issue here and tried running our test on our debug APK which we do not add obfuscation to but still got the same error. So this leads us to think that this issue is not related to Proguard.

Our app does have a fragment on the initial launch of the Login Activity and uses the Jetpack Navigation Library, if that helps.

[KazuCocoa]

Thank you for the information. I see. DI libraries cause such configuration issues.

[cweggler]

I used Kotlin version 1.4.32 on our test and we did use the same versions for kotlin-reflect and kotlin-stdlib. But I’m starting to think this error is because of our Dagger dependency injection setup in the Android app itself. Dependency Injection hasn’t been set up for tests. When we try to run a simple Espresso test locally (not using Appium) we get the same error, but more information on why-

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: <init> []
	at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2320)
	at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1725)
	at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentFactory.instantiate(FragmentFactory.java:121)
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