diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index c06d6a6..f656e99 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -9,7 +9,18 @@ buildscript {
         google()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.1.1'
+        // 8.5.1+ needed for AGP to automatically 16 KB-align native
+        // libraries' zip entries within the APK - the actual .so's are
+        // already ELF-segment-aligned for this regardless of AGP version
+        // (see build-image/Dockerfile's ANDROID_16KB_LDFLAGS and
+        // app/build.gradle's own CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS), but that alone
+        // doesn't get them 16 KB-aligned *within the APK's zip*, which is
+        // what Android Studio's "not compatible with 16 KB devices"
+        // warning is actually about. Needs Gradle 8.7+ (see
+        // gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties) and JDK 17 in whatever
+        // runs gradlew (already the case - see build-image/Dockerfile's
+        // openjdk-17-jdk-headless).
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.5.2'
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 5b9d759..e92c31d 100644
--- a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-#Thu Nov 11 18:20:34 PST 2021
+#Sat Sep 05 16:12:16 CEST 2026
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
+distributionSha256Sum=544c35d6bd849ae8a5ed0bcea39ba677dc40f49df7d1835561582da2009b961d
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.7-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists