Which is a better way to access Context in instrumented unit tests?

Question

Which of the following is more recommended to access Context in instrumented unit tests: using ApplicationProvider or InstrumentationRegistry?

val context: Context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext()

import androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry

val context: Context = InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().targetContext

I know androidx.test.InstrumentationRegistry is deprecated, but androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry is not.

Answer 1

You can either use androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry or android.support.test.InstrumentationRegistry based on your SDK version and get the context by

Context context = InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().getTargetContext();