assembleRelease isn't using metro exts replacements (mocks)

[Grohden]

I'm trying really hard to make my tests run on the release version of my apk, but the assembleRelease task seems to be ignoring any exts I've added to metro.config.js, even through the sourceExts get is called at some point, it is being ignored, here's my conf:

const { sourceExts } = require('metro-config/src/defaults/defaults')

module.exports = {
    resolver: {
        get sourceExts() {
            const exts = process.env.RN_SRC_EXT
                ? process.env.RN_SRC_EXT.split(',').concat(sourceExts)
                : sourceExts

            console.log('[METRO] ',exts) // this is called on assembleRelease too

            return exts
        }
    },
    transformer: {
        getTransformOptions: async () => ({
            transform: {
                experimentalImportSupport: false,
                inlineRequires: false
            }
        })
    }
}

And here is my build definition

"android.device.debug": {
  "binaryPath": "android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk",
  "build": "pushd android && (./gradlew app:assembleRelease app:assembleAndroidTest -DtestBuildType=release) && popd",
  "type": "android.attached",
  "name": "405cba2f"
}

assembleDebug works fine, and uses the exts defined by my env vars, but assembleRelease ignore them.

I know this is not a direct detox issue, but at the advanced mock docs there's a example pointing to use the assembleRelease without any warning, it would be nice to have some note on this issue (also, there are a lot of issues on stackoverflow and here not answered/solved about it)

Note: the reason why I'm trying to use the release version is cuz the debug version is slow on tests (typing is really slow, i suspect that it's cuz there's the RN ws looking for the metro server and making the event loop occupied every X seconds during the tests)

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