diff --git a/services/tests/servicestests/Android.bp b/services/tests/servicestests/Android.bp
index b457856e86308..40a17061c7f1b 100644
--- a/services/tests/servicestests/Android.bp
+++ b/services/tests/servicestests/Android.bp
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ android_test {
         ":PackageParserTestApp1",
         ":PackageParserTestApp2",
         ":PackageParserTestApp3",
+        ":apex.test",
     ],
     resource_zips: [":FrameworksServicesTests_apks_as_resources"],
 }
diff --git a/services/tests/servicestests/res/raw/apex_test.apex b/services/tests/servicestests/res/raw/apex_test.apex
deleted file mode 100644
index 19b1c5e2e1c67..0000000000000
Binary files a/services/tests/servicestests/res/raw/apex_test.apex and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/services/tests/servicestests/src/com/android/server/pm/ApexManagerTest.java b/services/tests/servicestests/src/com/android/server/pm/ApexManagerTest.java
index 3718c5c5a5e16..0fbd1b64c379b 100644
--- a/services/tests/servicestests/src/com/android/server/pm/ApexManagerTest.java
+++ b/services/tests/servicestests/src/com/android/server/pm/ApexManagerTest.java
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ import android.apex.ApexSessionParams;
 import android.apex.IApexService;
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.content.pm.PackageInfo;
-import android.os.FileUtils;
 import android.os.RemoteException;
 import android.platform.test.annotations.Presubmit;
 
@@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ import androidx.test.filters.SmallTest;
 import androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry;
 import androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnit4;
 
-import com.android.frameworks.servicestests.R;
 import com.android.server.pm.parsing.PackageParser2;
 import com.android.server.pm.parsing.TestPackageParser2;
 
@@ -52,11 +50,12 @@ import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 
 @SmallTest
 @Presubmit
@@ -64,6 +63,7 @@ import java.io.InputStream;
 
 public class ApexManagerTest {
     private static final String TEST_APEX_PKG = "com.android.apex.test";
+    private static final String TEST_APEX_FILE_NAME = "apex.test.apex";
     private static final int TEST_SESSION_ID = 99999999;
     private static final int[] TEST_CHILD_SESSION_ID = {8888, 7777};
     private ApexManager mApexManager;
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ public class ApexManagerTest {
     }
 
     private ApexInfo[] createApexInfo(boolean isActive, boolean isFactory) {
-        File apexFile = copyRawResourceToFile(TEST_APEX_PKG, R.raw.apex_test);
+        File apexFile = extractResource(TEST_APEX_PKG,  TEST_APEX_FILE_NAME);
         ApexInfo apexInfo = new ApexInfo();
         apexInfo.isActive = isActive;
         apexInfo.isFactory = isFactory;
@@ -308,27 +308,29 @@ public class ApexManagerTest {
         return params;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Copies a specified {@code resourceId} to a temp file. Returns a non-null file if the copy
-     * succeeded
-     */
-    File copyRawResourceToFile(String baseName, int resourceId) {
-        File outFile;
+    // Extracts the binary data from a resource and writes it to a temp file
+    private static File extractResource(String baseName, String fullResourceName) {
+        File file;
         try {
-            outFile = File.createTempFile(baseName, ".apex");
+            file = File.createTempFile(baseName, ".apex");
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new AssertionError("CreateTempFile IOException" + e);
         }
-
-        try (InputStream is = mContext.getResources().openRawResource(resourceId);
-             FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outFile)) {
-            assertThat(FileUtils.copy(is, os)).isGreaterThan(0L);
-        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
-            throw new AssertionError("File not found exception " + e);
+        try (
+                InputStream in = ApexManager.class.getClassLoader()
+                        .getResourceAsStream(fullResourceName);
+                OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file))) {
+            if (in == null) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Resource not found: " + fullResourceName);
+            }
+            byte[] buf = new byte[65536];
+            int chunkSize;
+            while ((chunkSize = in.read(buf)) != -1) {
+                out.write(buf, 0, chunkSize);
+            }
+            return file;
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new AssertionError("IOException" + e);
+            throw new AssertionError("Exception while converting stream to file" + e);
         }
-
-        return outFile;
     }
 }