Android: how to get Context when testing with ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2?

Question

I'm running a junit test in Android which extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2. I'm using this on order to start up an activity.

The activity uses a subclass of the application object to obtain some parameters. I get the application object from the context.

Unfortunately, ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 does not provide access to the context. Is there a way to access the context before getting the activity?

Answer 1

You can get the application context from the instrumentation object:

getInstrumentation().getTargetContext().getApplicationContext()