"No package name found"

What happened?

After upgrading react-native-navigation from 7.39.2 to 7.40.1, builds with React Native 0.70.x (or older?) fail:

error Failed to build the app: No package name found. We couldn't parse the namespace from neither your build.gradle[.kts] file at node_modules/react-native-navigation/lib/android/app/build.gradle nor your package in the AndroidManifest at node_modules/react-native-navigation/lib/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml.

This breaking change appears to have been introduced in https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation/commit/6439f6858110fe79b7f9260b91f84dfd6e0e904d.

What was the expected behaviour?

No response

Was it tested on latest react-native-navigation?

• I have tested this issue on the latest react-native-navigation release and it still reproduces.

Help us reproduce this issue!

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In what environment did this happen?

React Native Navigation version: 7.40.1
React Native version: 0.70.15
Node version: 18.19.0

Start by reviewing commit 6439f6858110fe79b7f9260b91f84dfd6e0e904d and the package-name parsing for node_modules/react-native-navigation/lib/android/app/build.gradle and its AndroidManifest.xml. Reproduce with React Native Navigation 7.40.1 and React Native 0.70.15; done means the build no longer reports “No package name found.”