Espresso Idling Resource Dependency

[quarklemotion]

Copying customer issue reported here from Optiverse:
https://community.optimizely.com/t5/Mobile-Apps/Espresso-Idling-Resource-Dependency/m-p/20874

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Is there any reason the Android SDK depends on com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-idling-resource:2.2.2 in the release SDK? Because of this, there's a dependency resolution conflict which is deeply unhelpful when we're trying to work on our test suite and use a different version of the Espresso libraries.

I spent some time looking at the SDK source on GitHub, and it looks like it's only used in a class called CountingIdlingResourceManager. Unless that data is read from this in some kind of very non-obvious way, it looks like data gets put into this thing, but is never read out. So that's nice.

Please remove this apparently superfluous dependency. Having release code contain a testing library in this way seems like a mistake. Use whatever you want in your test suites, just keep it out of the stuff that goes into the wild.

[thomaszurkan-optimizely]

Espresso dependency has been removed from the SDK build in 1.5.0-RC. We will be closing this ticket soon.

[thomaszurkan-optimizely]

removed in 1.5.0