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  You successfully upgraded your Flutter project's dependencies, bumped the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) version to 8.0+ to keep up with the Play Store requirements, and hit run. Instead of the application launching, the build terminates immediately with the following error: Target debug_android_application failed: Exception: Gradle task assembleDebug failed with exit code 1 * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugMainManifest'. > com.android.builder.errors.EvalIssueException: Namespace not specified. Please specify a namespace in the module's build.gradle file like so: android { namespace 'com.example.my_app' } This is not a transient cache issue;  flutter clean  will not save you here. This is a breaking change enforced by AGP 8.0 regarding how Android resource compilation handles package names. The Root Cause: Decoupling Identity from Compilation Historically, the  package  attribute in  AndroidManifest.xml  serv...