How can I ignore namespace errors?

[TheCarpetMerchant]

There’s a lot of third-party packages that haven’t set a namespace, making impossible to build an Android app using those packages under Gradle 8. How can this be resolved without changing anything on the packages’ side ?

[Vampire (Björn Kautler)]

Can you elaborate please on what at all you are talking about?

[richzii (Rihards)]

Could be relevant to discussion I started last week. Haven’t seen any solution for now.

Namespace not specified for AGP 8.0.0

Hi! Need some help with Android Gradle Plugin update. When I try to update project from 7.4.2 to 8.0.0 I get an error: Namespace not specified. Please specify a namespace in the module's build.gradle file like so: android { namespace 'com.example.namespace' } If the package attribute is specified in the source AndroidManifest.xml, it can be migrated automatically to the namespace value in the build.gradle file using the AGP Upgrade Assistant; please refer to https://developer.android.com/…

[fdendorfer (Florian Dendorfer)]

NPM packages like lottie-react-native for example don’t have an android {namespace: ‘com.example’} set yet, which causes the gradle build to fail completly and the only way to fix it, is either create a local patch for every single dependency that is outdated under gradle 8 or wait for the package maintainers to catch up, which sometimes is unrealistic

[Vampire (Björn Kautler)]

But why is this related to Gradle 8?
What is a namespace?
And what do have NPM packages to do with an Android application?
Are you sure this discussion is appropriate in the Gradle community?

[matthew8sweeney (Matthew Sweeney)]

Maybe a little late but I believe the answer to this question is here: How do I fix 'namespace not specified' error in Android Studio? - Stack Overflow

[Vampire (Björn Kautler)]

Kind of, yes.
More a very dirty hack-around though, as it piles multiple bad practices onto each other.
Better get those dependencies’ maintainers to fix their projects.