Run Android app in debugging mode

Question

My Android Studio version is 2.3.3

In my Android app gradle build, I have explictly defined different server_url string values for debug type and release type:

buildTypes {
        debug {
            resValue "string", "server_url", "https://myserver.debug.com/"
        }
        release {
            resValue "string", "server_url", "https://myserver.com/"
            ...
        }
    }

In my code, I get the string value by:

String url = context.getString(R.string.server_url);

I connected my Android phone to my laptop. The Android studio toolbar looks like this:

I also selected build variants to be "debug":

I click the , the app is running on my phone, however, it uses server_url value defined in release type. Why?

(Under build/generated/res/resValues/debug/generated.xml & build/generated/res/resValues/release/generated.xml I see those values, no problem there eihter.)

==== Update ===

Adding defaultPublishConfig 'debug' fixed the issue (Thanks @Ulug Toprak), but I am still wondering why Android Studio doesn't work without it though I have set Build Variant to "Debug". Maybe a bug in Android Studio?

Run Android app in debugging mode

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