A problem occurred configuring project ':sms_autofill'.

[Jules369-ZM]

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred configuring project ':sms_autofill'.

Could not create an instance of type com.android.build.api.variant.impl.LibraryVariantBuilderImpl.
Namespace not specified. Specify a namespace in the module's build file. See https://d.android.com/r/tools/upgrade-assistant/set-namespace for information about setting the namespace.

steps to reproduce this
pubspec.yaml

environment:
sdk: ">=3.1.2<4.0.0"

dependencies:
action_slider: ^0.7.0
audioplayers: ^5.2.0
auto_size_text: ^3.0.0
avatar_glow: ^2.0.2
bloc: ^8.1.2
country_pickers: ^2.0.0
dio: ^5.3.3
dotted_border: ^2.1.0
equatable: ^2.0.5
file_picker: ^6.0.0
firebase_analytics: ^10.5.1
firebase_core: ^2.17.0
firebase_crashlytics: ^3.3.7
firebase_messaging: ^14.6.9
firebase_remote_config: ^4.3.2
fl_chart: ^0.64.0
flutter:
sdk: flutter
flutter_background_service: ^5.0.0
flutter_background_service_android: ^6.0.1
flutter_bloc: ^8.1.3
flutter_countdown_timer: ^4.1.0
flutter_local_notifications: ^16.1.0
flutter_localizations:
sdk: flutter
flutter_polyline_points_plus: ^3.0.0
flutter_pw_validator: ^1.6.0
flutter_svg: ^2.0.7
flutter_volume_controller: ^1.3.1
font_awesome_flutter: ^10.6.0
geocoding: ^2.1.1
geolocator: ^10.1.0
google_fonts: ^6.1.0
google_maps_flutter: ^2.5.0
google_maps_flutter_android: ^2.5.3
image_picker: ^1.0.4
in_app_review: ^2.0.6
intl: ^0.18.1
location: ^5.0.3
package_info_plus: ^4.1.0
permission_handler: ^11.0.1
phone_numbers_parser: ^8.0.0
pinput: ^3.0.1
rxdart: ^0.27.7
share_plus: ^7.1.0
sms_autofill: ^2.3.0
url_launcher: ^6.1.14
vibration: ^1.8.3

dev_dependencies:
bloc_test: ^9.1.5
flutter_test:
sdk: flutter
mocktail: ^1.0.1
very_good_analysis: ^5.1.0

flutter:
uses-material-design: true
generate: true

app/build.gradle

minSdkVersion 21
compileSdkVersion 34

project/build.gradle

ext.kotlin_version = '1.9.20'
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.1.0'

gradle-wrapper.properties

#Fri Jun 23 08:50:38 CEST 2017
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
#distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-all.zip
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-all.zip

it is able to run in debug mode but gives the above errors in release mode

[denniksam]

Got the same after changing Graddle tools to 8.x.x
With 7.x.x no problems