IDK what's causing this but firestore does not work release mode in android. It works fine in debug mode. Tried on multiple emulators and devices. It just returns an empty snapshot.
Log
[OnlineStateTracker]: Could not reach Cloud Firestore backend. Backend didn't respond within 10 seconds 09-18 19:50:22.030 31379 31504 W Firestore: 09-18 19:50:22.030 31379 31504 W Firestore: This typically indicates that your device does not have a healthy Internet connection at the moment. The client will operate in offline mode until it is able to successfully connect to the backend. 09-18 19:50:22.775 970 1612 E ActivityThread: Failed to find provider info for com.google.android.apps.wellbeing.api