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[zhengguo07q]

@llfbandit ERROR:D8: com.android.tools.r8.kotlin.H ERROR:D8: com.android.tools.r8.kotlin.H

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:mergeExtDexDebug'.

  Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'. Failed to transform play-services-location-21.2.0.aar (com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:21.2.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=true, dexing-enable-jacoco-instrumentation=false, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=23, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.libraryelements=jar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingWithClasspathTransform: C:\Users\85938.gradle\caches\transforms-3\50ad0727ed433953c31c65778dfc029b\transformed\jetified-play-services-location-21.2.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. Failed to transform kotlin-stdlib-1.9.23.jar (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.23) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=true, dexing-enable-jacoco-instrumentation=false, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=23, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.jvm.environment=standard-jvm, org.gradle.libraryelements=jar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime, org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.type=jvm}. Execution failed for DexingWithClasspathTransform: C:\Users\85938.gradle\caches\transforms-3\7eec90a023c77b0d6a4fa9c734f946bf\transformed\jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.23.jar. Error while dexing.

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BUILD FAILED in 1m 57s

no , I attempted to upgrade to compileSdk = 34 and applied id "com.android.application" version "7.4.2" with apply false, but encountered issues nonetheless.

[nicklbaert]

https://github.com/llfbandit/record/issues/333

[zhengguo07q]

@nicklbaert After upgrading to AGP 8.0, it prompts that each Android package requires a Namespace. How should I handle external packages that I reference which do not have this tag?

[llfbandit]

There's no need to upgrade to AGP 8.x

You can set you AGP plugin to 7.4.2 and AGP to 7.6.4. Those 2 are latest versions I believe.

If you still have issues with other plugins in your project you could also try this (untested):

// Top-level build.gradle file
allprojects {
    ...
    // Add this to populate namespace to other packages. 
    subprojects {
        afterEvaluate { project ->
            if (project.hasProperty('android')) {
                project.android {
                    if (namespace == null) {
                        namespace project.group
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

[zhengguo07q]

I was using AGP 7, setting the minSdkVersion to 24 resolved the issue. tks