Instrumented test is stuck on "Connected to process"

Question

When I try to run the ExampleInstrumentedTest on my Android Studio project, it builds fine, installs the test and then it is stuck on "Connected to process ####..." and no test results are displayed.

I've waited for more than 2 minutes and still no result. When I create a new Android Studio project with Empty Activity, the test runs fine and results are displayed. It's not working unfortunately for my existing project which I had been working on for a long time but never tried to run the Example test.

Things I've tried:

• Restart Physical device
• Uninstall app
• Invalidate Caches and Restart
• Clean Project

Here's the screenshot of how it looks like:

Answer 1

Removing androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core from dependencies did it for me.

Answer 2

I don't know how I solved this problem but these are the changes I made:

• I changed the Kotlin version from 1.6 to 1.7.
• I removed an unnecessary test file Navigation.
• I removed all the unnecessary testing dependencies.
• And, finally I clean built the project and voila. It works.