Android Studio falsely marks conditionals as always true

I have a class that's intended to be subclassed. There's a variable and a method that looks at the variable:

protected int base = 10;

private void rebuildDisplay() {
    if (base == 10) {
        dealWithBase10YadaYada(X);
    } else {
        dealWithOtherBase(X, base);
    }
}

Android Studio flags the if (base == 10) statement with Condition 'base == 10' is always 'true'.

But here's the thing: even though base is always 10 in my class, my subclass will be changing base to other values. So base == 10 isn't always true.

Is there a way to tell AS to not make assumptions about protected or public variables? Should I disable this test entirely, and if so, how? Heck, should I be reporting a bug?

This is an issue (not a bug) because it goes against encapsulation and ties your class implementation to that variable. Say there was a more efficient way to do whatever you wanted without using base; You can't change your code because users rely on base, and it would break code.

A setBase() method could have it's inner workings changed if you ever needed needed them to.

There is probably a lint setting you can change.