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+# Android 13 triggers robolectric issue: https://github.com/robolectric/robolectric/issues/8215
+# Temporarily lock to sdk31 until that issue is resolved, then remove this file so
+# that robolectric once again uses targetSdkVersion from AnkiDroid/build.gradle (33 currently)
+sdk=32