diff --git a/packages/core/sentry.gradle b/packages/core/sentry.gradle
index 3ab9225241..cdb70e7d85 100644
--- a/packages/core/sentry.gradle
+++ b/packages/core/sentry.gradle
@@ -65,13 +65,37 @@ tasks.register("cleanupTemporarySentryJsonConfiguration") {
 plugins.withId('com.android.application') {
     def androidComponents = extensions.getByName("androidComponents")
 
+    // Collect ApplicationVariant objects in onVariants - do NOT access tasks here.
+    // Calling tasks.findAll or tasks.matching{}.each{} inside onVariants forces task realization
+    // during AGP's variant configuration phase, which disrupts the Artifacts API
+    // transform chain used by other plugins (e.g. those calling
+    // variant.artifacts.use(...).toTransform(SingleArtifact.APK)). The result is
+    // that those plugins' APK output ends up in build/intermediates/ instead of
+    // build/outputs/, causing downstream tooling to fail to locate the final APK.
+    def releaseVariants = []
     androidComponents.onVariants(androidComponents.selector().all()) { v ->
         if (!v.name.toLowerCase().contains("debug")) {
+            releaseVariants << v
+        }
+    }
+
+    // All task-level operations must happen in afterEvaluate, not inside onVariants.
+    // By the time afterEvaluate runs, all plugins have registered their onVariants
+    // callbacks and the AGP Artifacts API transform chain is fully established.
+    project.afterEvaluate {
+        if (releaseVariants.isEmpty()) {
+            project.logger.warn("[sentry] No release variants collected, onVariants may have run after afterEvaluate. Sourcemap upload tasks will not be registered.")
+        }
+        releaseVariants.each { v ->
             // separately we then hook into the bundle task of react native to inject
             // sourcemap generation parameters.  In case for whatever reason no release
             // was found for the asset folder we just bail.
-            def bundleTasks = tasks.findAll { task -> (task.name.startsWith("createBundle") || task.name.startsWith("bundle")) && task.name.endsWith("JsAndAssets") && !task.name.contains("Debug") && task.enabled }
-            bundleTasks.each { bundleTask ->
+            tasks.matching { task ->
+                (task.name.startsWith("createBundle") || task.name.startsWith("bundle")) &&
+                task.name.endsWith("JsAndAssets") &&
+                !task.name.contains("Debug")
+            }.each { bundleTask ->
+                if (!bundleTask.enabled) return
                 def shouldCleanUp
                 def sourcemapOutput
                 def bundleOutput
@@ -95,7 +119,7 @@ plugins.withId('com.android.application') {
                 //     .join('\n')
 
                 def currentVariants = extractCurrentVariants(bundleTask, v)
-                if (currentVariants == null) return
+                if (currentVariants == null || currentVariants.isEmpty()) return
 
                 def previousCliTask = null
                 def applicationVariant = null
@@ -304,9 +328,10 @@ plugins.withId('com.android.application') {
                 previousCliTask.configure { finalizedBy cliCleanUpTask }
 
                 def packageTasks = tasks.matching {
-                    task -> ("package${applicationVariant}".equalsIgnoreCase(task.name) || "package${applicationVariant}Bundle".equalsIgnoreCase(task.name)) && task.enabled
+                    task -> ("package${applicationVariant}".equalsIgnoreCase(task.name) || "package${applicationVariant}Bundle".equalsIgnoreCase(task.name))
                 }
                 packageTasks.configureEach { packageTask ->
+                    if (!packageTask.enabled) return
                     packageTask.dependsOn modulesTask
                     packageTask.finalizedBy modulesCleanUpTask
                 }