Issue finding Android APK

[davidmcraejr]

Description

I am setting up detox in our React Native application, I have iOS running and now running into issues for Android. In the .detoxrc.js config file I have android/app/build/outputs/apk/androidTest/dev/debug/app-dev-debug-androidTest.apk set as the binaryPath for Android but when I run detox test --configuration android.emu.debug I get the output of The test APK could not be found at path: '/Users/xxx/Documents/git/mobile-app/android/app/build/outputs/apk/androidTest/androidTest/devDebug/androidTest/app-dev-debug-androidTest-androidTest.apk'
Somehow it seems to be appending extra path and file data, thoughts?

Your environment

Detox version: 20.7.2
React Native version: 0.71.3
Node version: 18.9.0
Device model: Emulator
OS: Android
Test-runner (select one): jest

[davidmcraejr]

didn't realize there was a testBinaryPath and a binaryPath

[KaterinaUK]

@davidmcraejr I have the exact same issue as you described, what did you place in each of testBinaryPath and binaryPath?

to build our app we use npx react-native run-android, which gives me only the android/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

and it seems I cannot put this path as the same location for both values.

[davidmcraejr]

@KaterinaUK we build a debug app and test app so have two apk's to use for each values, here what we have -

binaryPath: 'android/app/build/outputs/apk/local/debug/app-local-debug.apk',
testBinaryPath: 'android/app/build/outputs/apk/androidTest/local/debug/app-local-debug-androidTest.apk',

[KaterinaUK]

@davidmcraejr how are you going about building each of these?

I think I am not following why detox needs two apks, npx react-native run-android, gives me my apk on an emulator and im ready to run tests on it

[davidmcraejr]

We run

build: 'cd android && ./gradlew assembleDevDebug assembleAndroidTest -DtestBuildType=debug && cd ..',

NOTE: "assembleDevDebug" is a specific build type for us so you would have to set the build types that are associated with your project.

Once those are setup correctly and pointed correctly - Detox will install the correct app and run the tests