Google Analytics & Product Flavors - google-analytics

Question

I used the answer provided here:
google-services.json for different productFlavors to add a google-services.json files to my app/src/dev flavor folder and one to my app/src/production flavor folder. My dev debug variant will generate Events in my dashboard but my production release variant does not. The tracking_id is correct so not sure what I am missing.
*I DO see a real Time Event for productionDebug variant, but why not productionRelease?
Also I have an res/xml/app_tracker.xml in each of my flavor folders
with each having its respective correct ga_trackingId
Here is my google-services-json file for my production flavor:
{
"project_info": {
"project_id": "shopper-64392",
"project_number": "475366498847",
"name": "Shopper"
},
"client": [
{
"client_info": {
"mobilesdk_app_id": "1:475366498847:android:847eba250b1fe1a7",
"client_id": "android:ts.kiosk.app.shoppers",
"client_type": 1,
"android_client_info": {
"package_name": "ts.kiosk.app.shoppers",
"certificate_hash": []
}
},
"oauth_client": [],
"api_key": [],
"services": {
"analytics_service": {
"status": 2,
"analytics_property": {
"tracking_id": "UA-76684740-1"
}
},
"cloud_messaging_service": {
"status": 1,
"apns_config": []
},
"appinvite_service": {
"status": 1,
"other_platform_oauth_client": []
},
"google_signin_service": {
"status": 1
},
"ads_service": {
"status": 1
}
}
}
],
"client_info": [],
"ARTIFACT_VERSION": "1"
}