Robolectric tanks on Application objects that load JNI libraries. Can I get a workaround?

Question

The `Application` object for my Android app loads a JNI library, and Robolectric doesn't seem to like that. When I go to run my tests Robolectric craps out and I get this stack trace: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no cperryinc-jni in java.library.path at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1758) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1045) at com.cperryinc.application.MoolaApplication.(MoolaApplication.java:24) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169) at com.xtremelabs.robolectric.internal.ClassNameResolver.safeClassForName(ClassNameResolver.java:36) at com.xtremelabs.robolectric.internal.ClassNameResolver.resolve(ClassNameResolver.java:15) at com.xtremelabs.robolectric.ApplicationResolver.newApplicationInstance(ApplicationResolver.java:71) at com.xtremelabs.robolectric.ApplicationResolver.resolveApplication(ApplicationResolver.java:28) at com.xtremelabs.robolectric.R…

Accepted Answer

Solution works for Robolectric 1.2, not 2.+

Thanks to Jan Berkel for answering this here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/robolectric/beW9XjT8E1A/pJQrRaybN30J

```
class MyJniClass {
 static {
        try {
            System.loadLibrary("libname");
        } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
            // only ignore exception in non-android env
            if ("Dalvik".equals(System.getProperty("java.vm.name"))) throw e;
        }
    }
}
```

then in the testrunner:

```
public class MyTestRunner  extends RobolectricTestRunner {
   public MyTestRunner(Class testClass) throws InitializationError {
         // remove native calls + replace with shadows
        addClassOrPackageToInstrument("com.example.jni.MyJniClass");
   }

protected void bindShadowClasses() {
         // bind shadow JNI classes
   }
}
```

Robolectric tanks on Application objects that load JNI libraries. Can I get a workaround?

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