How do I add a dependency to the android gradle task 'test'?

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I’ve introduced a dependency for my unit tests to a custom task I’ve written in gradle. In android-gradle v1.2.3 the unit test task is named test. So I assumed you add a dependency with test.dependsOn. Gradle doesn’t like that.

Error:

 C:\coding\source\testapp\app\build.gradle
 Error:(30, 0) Could not find property 'test' on project ':app'.

build.gradle:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 22
    buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.example.nilzor.myapplication"
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 22
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.1'
}

task myTask() {
}

test.dependsOn 'mytask'

Where do I go wrong and how do I fix it?

2

Found that I had to wrap it in

afterEvaluate {       
}

The test task is obviously created at a later point

3

A better solution that would continue working in the current versions of Gradle is to make this a rule like so:

tasks.matching('test') {
    dependsOn 'myTask'
}