Android Espresso NoMatchingViewException on check

This is expected behavior.

onView(withId(R.id.gettingStarted)) by itself doesn't do anything. When you invoke the perform method, Espresso runs the matcher provided inside the onView method against the current view hierarchy - if no matching view is found, the exception is thrown.

See the start guide for more details: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/espresso/index.html