diff --git a/packages/react-native/android/build.gradle b/packages/react-native/android/build.gradle
index a7be1f67..ea0cf94d 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/android/build.gradle
+++ b/packages/react-native/android/build.gradle
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ project.ext {
 }
 
 android {
+  def agpVersion = com.android.Version.ANDROID_GRADLE_PLUGIN_VERSION
+  // Check AGP version for backward compatibility w/react-native versions still on gradle plugin 6
+  if (agpVersion.tokenize('.')[0].toInteger() >= 7) {
+    namespace = "io.invertase.notifee"
+  }
+
   defaultConfig {
     multiDexEnabled true
   }