Android Gradle Plugin 8 support for React Native libraries

patch.diff

diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 525cb31..6af104d 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -36,7 +36,30 @@ def getExtOrIntegerDefault(name) {
   return rootProject.ext.has(name) ? rootProject.ext.get(name) : (project.properties["MyLib_" + name]).toInteger()
 }
 
+def supportsNamespace() {
+  def parsed = com.android.Version.ANDROID_GRADLE_PLUGIN_VERSION.tokenize('.')
+  def major = parsed[0].toInteger()
+  def minor = parsed[1].toInteger()
+
+  // Namespace support was added in 7.3.0
+  return (major == 7 && minor >= 3) || major >= 8
+}
+
 android {
+  if (supportsNamespace()) {
+    namespace "com.mylib"
+
+    sourceSets {
+      main {
+        manifest.srcFile "src/main/AndroidManifestNew.xml"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   compileSdkVersion getExtOrIntegerDefault("compileSdkVersion")
 
   defaultConfig {
diff --git a/android/src/main/AndroidManifestNew.xml b/android/src/main/AndroidManifestNew.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a2f47b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/src/main/AndroidManifestNew.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
+</manifest>