I think some of the magic they built to handle it automatically (like the gradle plugin) was a well-intentioned effort to make it *just work* but when you want to do basic things like not upload sourcemaps when building locally it's a whole thing to simply turn it off
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Otherwise, you have to open Android Studio via the shell like a maniac, closing and reopening with new env vars each time you need to switch project. Absolute madness both ways.