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Duplicated dependencies in both the app and test app will cause a runtime IllegalStateException by the dex pre-verifier. While this seems obvious that the instrumentation should mark its dependency as provided, this configuration is perfectly reasonable when you take into account transitive dependencies.

For example, App1 depends on Lib1 which depends on Guava. App1's instrumentation tests depends on Lib2 which also depends on Guava. If there were no Lib1 dependency, Guava still needs to be included in the test APK for Lib2 to use it.

The tooling needs to detect dependencies in the instrumentation test scope which duplicate that of the compile scope and demote them to being provided.