Integrating Robolectric with IntelliJ

.zshrc

# Shell Settings
export ANDROID_HOME="/usr/bin/android-sdk-macosx"
export PATH="/usr/bin/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/android-sdk-macosx/tools:/usr/local/apache-maven-2.1.2/bin:$PATH"

MyActivityTest.java

import com.example.MyActivity;
import com.example.R;
import com.xtremelabs.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner.class)
public class MyActivityTest {

    @Test
    public void shouldHaveHappySmiles() throws Exception {
        String appName = new MyActivity().getResources().getString(R.string.app_name);
        assertThat(appName, equalTo("MyActivity"));
    }
}

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.colabug</groupId>
    <artifactId>AnimationApp</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>apk</packaging>
    <name>My Sample Animation App</name>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
            <artifactId>android</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Make sure this is below the android dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.pivotallabs</groupId>
            <artifactId>robolectric</artifactId>
            <version>1.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.8.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>

        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <!-- See http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/ -->
                <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
                <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <sdk>
                        <platform>8</platform>
                    </sdk>
                </configuration>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

settings.xml

<settings
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
    http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>android</id>
            <properties>
                <android.sdk.path>
                    /usr/bin/android-sdk-macosx
                </android.sdk.path>
            </properties>
        </profile>
    </profiles>
    <activeProfiles>
        <!--make the profile active all the time -->
        <activeProfile>android</activeProfile>
    </activeProfiles>
</settings>

If you set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable you do not need the settings.xml ...