diff --git a/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/BUILD b/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/BUILD
index 5c84af3e6..da5e9d60b 100644
--- a/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/BUILD
+++ b/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/BUILD
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ kt_android_library(
             "internal/runner/runtime/ExposedInstrumentationApi.java",
             "internal/runner/hidden/ExposedInstrumentationApi.java",
             "internal/platform/app/ActivityInvoker$$CC.java",
+            "internal/platform/app/ActivityInvokerDesugar.java",
         ],
     ),
     tags = ["alt_dep=//runner/monitor"],
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ android_library(
     srcs = [
         # only needed for external release backwards compatibility
         "internal/platform/app/ActivityInvoker$$CC.java",
+        "internal/platform/app/ActivityInvokerDesugar.java",
     ],
     custom_package = "androidx.test.monitor",
     manifest = "AndroidManifest.xml",
@@ -107,6 +109,7 @@ axt_android_aar(
         "androidx.test.platform",
         "androidx.test.runner",
     ],
+    jarjar_rule = ":jarjar.txt",
     included_dep = ":monitor_release_lib",
 )
 
diff --git a/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/internal/platform/app/ActivityInvokerDesugar.java b/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/internal/platform/app/ActivityInvokerDesugar.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c29714aa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/internal/platform/app/ActivityInvokerDesugar.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package androidx.test.internal.platform.app;
+
+import static androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation;
+
+import android.app.Activity;
+import android.content.ComponentName;
+import android.content.Intent;
+import androidx.annotation.RestrictTo;
+import androidx.annotation.RestrictTo.Scope;
+
+/**
+ * Handles default implementation for ActivityInvoker#getIntentForActivity
+ *
+ * <p> See the {@link ActivityInvoker$$CC} javadoc for prior history.
+ *
+ * <p> Starting in androidx.test:monitor:1.6.X, a new version of the desugar tooling was used
+ * that generated a ActivityInvoker$-CC class. Class names with hyphens are rejected by javac,
+ * so we cannot directly declare a ActivityInvoker$-CC class here. So instead we use a
+ * placeholder name, and use jarjar to rename the class after the javac step.
+ *
+ * @hide
+ */
+@RestrictTo(Scope.LIBRARY_GROUP)
+public final class ActivityInvokerDesugar {
+
+  private ActivityInvokerDesugar() {}
+
+  public static Intent $default$getIntentForActivity(ActivityInvoker invoker,
+            Class<? extends Activity> activityClass) {
+    Intent intent =
+        Intent.makeMainActivity(
+            new ComponentName(getInstrumentation().getTargetContext(), activityClass));
+    if (getInstrumentation().getTargetContext().getPackageManager().resolveActivity(intent, 0)
+        != null) {
+      return intent;
+    }
+    return Intent.makeMainActivity(
+        new ComponentName(getInstrumentation().getContext(), activityClass));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/jarjar.txt b/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/jarjar.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ebfe8a76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/runner/monitor/java/androidx/test/jarjar.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rule androidx.test.internal.platform.app.ActivityInvokerDesugar androidx.test.internal.platform.app.ActivityInvoker$-CC