Problem with androidTest in Android Studio 3.0 Canary 4 - assume it's not ThreeTenABP?

[alteredworlds]

I assume this is a problem with Android Studio 3.0 Canary 4 / gradle:3.0.0-alpha4 rather than ThreeTenABP, in which case sorry for wasting your time here, but wanted to ask just in case I'm doing something wrong.

I see 'org.threeten.bp.zone.ZoneRulesException: No time-zone data files registered' when trying to run an androidTest, even though I specify:

// JSR-310 java.time.* backport
 implementation "com.jakewharton.threetenabp:threetenabp:1.0.5"
 // For testing, require version containing assets in Android-inefficient manner
 // see: https://github.com/JakeWharton/ThreeTenABP/issues/14
 androidTestImplementation("org.threeten:threetenbp:1.3.3") {
     exclude group: 'com.jakewharton.threetenabp', module: 'threetenabp'
 }

https://github.com/alteredworlds/androidtestcompileexclude

[alteredworlds]

see: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/63748587
Google's response:

What you need to do is do this at the level of the variant-specific resolved configuration instead, which are debugAndroidTestCompileClasspath/debugAndroidTestRuntimeClasspath. You can get access to these via the variant apis:

android.testVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.getCompileConfiguration().exclude group: 'com.jakewharton.threetenabp', module: 'threetenabp'
        variant.getRuntimeConfiguration().exclude group: 'com.jakewharton.threetenabp', module: 'threetenabp'
}

This approach does remove any mention of threetenabp from the output of both of:

./gradlew app:dependencies --configuration debugAndroidTestCompileClasspath 
./gradlew app:dependencies --configuration debugAndroidTestRuntimeClasspath

But unfortunately I still see the same error as before when running androidTest(s):

org.threeten.bp.zone.ZoneRulesException: No time-zone data files registered
at org.threeten.bp.zone.ZoneRulesProvider.getProvider(ZoneRulesProvider.java:176)
at org.threeten.bp.zone.ZoneRulesProvider.getRules(ZoneRulesProvider.java:133)
at org.threeten.bp.ZoneRegion.ofId(ZoneRegion.java:143)
at org.threeten.bp.ZoneId.of(ZoneId.java:357)
at org.threeten.bp.ZoneId.of(ZoneId.java:285)
at org.threeten.bp.ZoneId.systemDefault(ZoneId.java:244)
at org.threeten.bp.Clock.systemDefaultZone(Clock.java:137)
at org.threeten.bp.LocalDate.now(LocalDate.java:165)
at com.example.androidtestcompileexclude.ExampleInstrumentedTest.testDate(ExampleInstrumentedTest.java:44)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:50)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:325)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:78)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:57)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:128)
at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:27)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:137)
at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:115)
at android.support.test.internal.runner.TestExecutor.execute(TestExecutor.java:59)
at android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner.onStart(AndroidJUnitRunner.java:262)
at android.app.Instrumentation$InstrumentationThread.run(Instrumentation.java:1932)

I've included the suggested fix in my test project (above) on branch studio3, still demonstrates this problem. Anyone got any ideas, please? What am I missing?

[alteredworlds]

Fixed in Android Studio 3.0 Beta 2 with
build.gradle: classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta3'
gradle-wrapper.properties distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip

[JakeWharton]

Great, thanks!