(Depricated) I found a solution with lesser steps. See http://nenick-android.blogspot.de/2015/03/android-studio-110-and-robolectric-30.html Step by step guide how to enable Robolectric Support Until now it was not easy to use Robolectric with gradle and Android Studio, but the new experimental unit test feature may remove the necessity of extra plugins. An example can be found at https://github.co