lintoptions has to be used here as well

dnschangertests/build.gradle

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ android {
             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
         }
     }
+    lintOptions {
+        abortOnError false
+    }
 }
 
 dependencies {