diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 670deb067..32fa8c58d 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ allprojects {
 }
 
 task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
-    gradleVersion = '2.5'
+    gradleVersion = '2.8'
 }
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 3212d53fb..bfe8894b0 100644
--- a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Fri Aug 07 10:13:04 AEST 2015
+#Thu Nov 05 15:04:17 CST 2015
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.5-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.8-bin.zip