Differences between testCompile and androidTestCompile for junit imports

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What is the difference between these two import statements? (in build.gradle):

testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'

androidTestCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'

Possible duplicate of [Confused about testCompile and androidTestCompile in Android Gradle](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29021331/confused-about-testcompile-and-androidtestcompile-in-android-gradle) — Andrii Abramov, Oct 24 '16 at 11:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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There's a great answer here explaining the difference:

Simply testCompile is the configuration for unit tests (located in src/test) and androidTestCompile is used for the test API (located in src/androidTest).

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The main distinction between the two is the test sourceset runs in a regular Java JVM, whereas the androidTest sourceset tests run on an Android device (or an emulator).

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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