Detox build successful but detox test fails

[kuyazee]

Following the setup provided by Detox on adding Android, the command below that builds detox works fine with no problems

detox build -c android.emu.debug

Now for the setup on the Package.json file, I'm sure the directories are being provided correctly

"android.emu.debug": {
  "binaryPath": "../OUR-APP-NAME/app/build/outputs/apk/androidTest/dev/debug/app-dev-debug-androidTest.apk",
  "build": "cd ../OUR-APP-NAME/ && ./gradlew assembleDebug assembleAndroidTest -DtestBuildType=debug && cd ../OUR-APP-NAME-TESTS",
  "type": "android.emulator",
  "name": "Pixel_2_XL_API_26"
},

For some reason running detox test doesn't work

 detox test -c android.emu.debug

It throws the error message

Error: '/Users/z/Projects/company-projects/OUR-APP-NAME/app/build/outputs/apk/androidTest/androidTest/devDebug/androidTest/app-dev-debug-androidTest-androidTest.apk' could not be found, did you run './gradlew assembleAndroidTest' ?

...... 

detox[29702] ERROR: [cli.js] Error: Command failed: node_modules/.bin/mocha --opts e2e/mocha.opts --configuration android.emu.debug --loglevel verbose --grep :ios: --invert --artifacts-location "artifacts/android.emu.debug.2019-11-20 09-54-23Z" "e2e"

I've noticed that on the first error message the directory being supplied by Detox is a mistake so I tried the following

• Created a directory containing the APK
• Changed the directory on binaryPath of the Package.json file to a different one
• Run the assembleAndroidTest and assembleDebug gradle step directly in Android Studio

But to no avail I haven't been able to make it work, I'm currently lost.

Notes:

• I'm running Detox for a Native Android application
• Our Detox setup works for our Native iOS application
• We're using the Detox 14.4.1

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