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 ?

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

Could be relevant to discussion I started last week. Haven’t seen any solution for now. [image] Namespace not specified for AGP 8.0.0 Help/Discuss 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: Namesp…

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build to fail completly and the only way to fix it, is either create a local patch for every single dependency that is outdated under gradle 8 or wait for the package m…

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?

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

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.

How can I ignore namespace errors?

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richzii (Rihards) June 19, 2023, 6:00am 3

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

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How can I ignore namespace errors?

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