diff --git a/android-project/app/build.gradle b/android-project/app/build.gradle
index a95bb8aff5..8946de6677 100644
--- a/android-project/app/build.gradle
+++ b/android-project/app/build.gradle
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ android {
     namespace "org.libsdl.app"
     compileSdkVersion 35
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdkVersion 19
+        minSdkVersion 21
         targetSdkVersion 35
         versionCode 1
         versionName "1.0"
diff --git a/android-project/build.gradle b/android-project/build.gradle
index 2c911c6ff1..da0461b626 100644
--- a/android-project/build.gradle
+++ b/android-project/build.gradle
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ buildscript {
         google()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.1.1'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.7.0'
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
diff --git a/android-project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android-project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 5b9d759973..99fbfa03f6 100644
--- a/android-project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android-project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #Thu Nov 11 18:20:34 PST 2021
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12-bin.zip
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME