diff --git a/android/app/build.gradle b/android/app/build.gradle
index 096b0a4..05a5479 100644
--- a/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ android {
         disable 'InvalidPackage'
     }
 
+    compileOptions { // required by flutter_local_notifications
+        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
+        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
+        coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled true
+    }
+
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId "ca.hamaluik.timecop"
         minSdkVersion 16
@@ -50,6 +56,7 @@ android {
         versionName flutterVersionName
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         resConfigs "en", "ar", "cs", "de", "es", "fr", "hi", "id", "it", "ja", "ko", "nb-rNO", "pt", "ru", "tr", "zh-rCN", "zh-rTW"
+        multiDexEnabled true // required by flutter_local_notifications
     }
 
    signingConfigs {
@@ -77,4 +84,5 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
     androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.1.1'
     androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.1.1'
+    coreLibraryDesugaring 'com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs:1.1.5' // required by flutter_local_notifications
 }
diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index a46ed5f..71d9b06 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ buildscript {
     }
 
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.0'
         classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
     }
 }
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 90f271d..b06c5a3 100644
--- a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4-all.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=cd5c2958a107ee7f0722004a12d0f8559b4564c34daad7df06cffd4d12a426d0
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