AndroidJUnit4 unable to instantiate instrumentation ComponentInfo ... has no zero argument constructor

The current app I am developing need some integration tests. I decided to write some UI tests in espresso with AndroidJUnitRunner but unfortunately i run into some problems that I can either solve nor understeand. I hoped to find help in your hints and explanation.

For first I try just to run simple activity and check some value just to get it to work, so the code example is short for now. All dependencies, gradle.build and logcat are posted below. If you need more details to help me, please let me know. The IDE I use is intellij.

This is the logcat:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate instrumentation ComponentInfo{com.wintermute.gmassistant.test/androidx.test.internal.runner.junit4.AndroidJUnit4ClassRunner}: java.lang.InstantiationException: java.lang.Class<androidx.test.internal.runner.junit4.AndroidJUnit4ClassRunner> has no zero argument constructor
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:6395)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300(ActivityThread.java:219)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1859)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
     Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: java.lang.Class<androidx.test.internal.runner.junit4.AndroidJUnit4ClassRunner> has no zero argument constructor
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Native Method)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:6391)

The test class looks as following:

package com.wintermute.gmassistant.database.dao;

import static androidx.test.espresso.Espresso.onView;
import static androidx.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.typeText;
import static androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withId;

import androidx.test.ext.junit.rules.ActivityScenarioRule;
import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4;
import com.wintermute.gmassistant.R;
import com.wintermute.gmassistant.client.FileBrowser;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

/**
 * Test FileBrowser.
 */
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
public class FileBrowserTest
{

    @Rule
    public ActivityScenarioRule<FileBrowser> activityScenarioRule = new ActivityScenarioRule<>(FileBrowser.class);

    @Test
    void test()
    {
        onView(withId(R.id.select_directory)).perform(typeText("Select current directory"));
    }
}

This is my build.gradle

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    android {
        lintOptions {
            abortOnError false
        }
    }
    compileSdkVersion 29
    buildToolsVersion "29.0.2"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.wintermute.gmassistant"
        minSdkVersion 27
        targetSdkVersion 29
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
//        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.internal.runner.junit4.AndroidJUnit4ClassRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility = 1.8
        targetCompatibility = 1.8
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'

    //lombok
    implementation 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.10'
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'
    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.10'

    //REST Client
    implementation 'com.android.volley:volley:1.1.1'

    //color picker
    implementation 'com.github.skydoves:colorpickerpreference:2.0.0'

    //Guava
    implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:28.1-android'

    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    testImplementation 'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:2.2'

    androidTestImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'

    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.2.0'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.1'
}

Any ideas why it happens? I would love if you could explain it to me so I can understeand it.