By now everyone has heard about the Marshmallow permission model. You havent? Where have you been? Go and read Requesting Permissions at Run Time and come back when you've finished. It's ok. I can wait...

So it's all well and good except when you're trying to run tests. When you're …

You know how it is - you're developing an app that uses an API out on the Internet. You're sitting on your development machine that uses wired ethernet. Your phone is connected to a wi-fi access point which is on a different network to your development machine and you need to …

The code was right. The test was wrong. But it still passed.

The app that we've been working on has a ViewPager and we're using Espresso for functional testing. One of the tests swipes between the pages of the ViewPager and checks for some text on each page.

Later on …