Find the "Build Variants" view on the top-left bar and change all modules to the "playBenchmark" build to avoid the slowdown of the debug symbols.  

 do i need to get the APK from Google Play? Google Play complains that i don’t own a valid device 😝 

 No, you can download directly from Github using Obtainum: https://blob.satellite.earth/2bd7e308c1797d64fca09b1d61e9bde24c68dd45e501c7383eff1e85392df11f