How to instrumentation test multi module fragments in a single activity Android app that requires activity application

Question

I implemented a single activity multi module app. The fragment in the module uses the activity?.application as BaseApplication to get the dao for the fragment view model. Now, writing the espresso test, calling

launchFragmentInContainer<AddTripFragment>(themeResId = R.style.Theme)

it's calling a

java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.Application cannot be cast to com.example.core.ui.BaseApplication

Is there a way to provide some type of application for the test case?

class ModuleFragment : Fragment() {

    private val viewModel: ModuleViewModel by activityViewModels {
        ModuleViewModelFactory(((activity?.application as BaseApplication).database).dao())
    }
}

@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
class ModuleFragmentTest {
    private lateinit var scenario: FragmentScenario<ModuleFragment>

    @Before
    fun setup() {
        scenario = launchFragmentInContainer(themeResId = R.style)
    }
}

I've tried to declare the app's module main activity test rule. However, that doesn't take me too far and is also leading to circular dependency.

    val activityRule = ActivityTestRule(MainActivity::class.java)