No variants issue, can you point me in a direction?

This is a react native project that is failing for android builds. I am in the process of upgrading the version of react native and some other things as a consequence of that.

Im too ignorant to even know where to begin with this. What is this error trying to tell me?

thanks for any nudge.

THE ERROR

* What went wrong:

Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:compileDevDebugJavaWithJavac'.

> Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':app:devDebugCompileClasspath'.

   > Could not resolve project :realm.

     Required by:

         project :app

      > No matching variant of project :realm was found. The consumer was configured to find a library for use during compile-time, preferably optimized for Android, as well as attribute 'com.android.build.api.attributes.AgpVersionAttr' with value '8.6.0', attribute 'com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr' with value 'debug', attribute 'com.android.build.api.attributes.ProductFlavor:environment' with value 'dev', attribute 'com.android.build.api.attributes.ProductFlavor:react-native-camera' with value 'mlkit', attribute 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.type' with value 'androidJvm' but:

          - No variants exist.

It means that you friend on project :realm, while the project does not publish any variant at all.