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The instrumentation suite was timing out on navigation flows and failed with back-press focus errors; Spotless flagged formatting in NavigationTest.kt. This change seeds data before tests, hardens back-press handling, and keeps formatting compliant.

What I have done and why

• Test data readiness

  • Sync topics/news repositories during NavigationTest setup to guarantee content before UI waits.

• Back-press resilience

  • Centralize expected back-press exceptions without direct internal Espresso imports; assert activity termination deterministically.

• Runtime dependencies

  • Add AndroidX test core/runner to instrumentation dependencies to resolve ActivityInvoker class loading failures.

runBlocking {
    val synchronizer = TestSynchronizer(niaPreferencesDataSource)
    withTimeout(DATA_LOAD_TIMEOUT_MILLIS) {
        topicsRepository.syncWith(synchronizer)
        newsRepository.syncWith(synchronizer)
    }
}

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• dl.google.com
  • Triggering command: /usr/lib/jvm/temurin-17-jdk-amd64/bin/java /usr/lib/jvm/temurin-17-jdk-amd64/bin/java --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang.invoke=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.prefs/java.util.prefs=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.prefs/java.util.prefs=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.nio.charset=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util.concurrent.atomic=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.xml/javax.xml.namespace=ALL-UNNAMED -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=1 -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xms4g -Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 (dns block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

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