diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index eed9972..fe10367 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 buildscript {
     repositories {
         jcenter()
+        google() // Gradle 3: add this
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.3'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.0' // Gradle 3: replace existing classpath with this
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ allprojects {
     repositories {
         mavenLocal()
         jcenter()
+        google() // Gradle 3: add this
         maven {
             // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
             url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index dbdc05d..e6d7cad 100644
--- a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip
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