diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 69907029804..f7d88970600 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
  * Please see the LICENSE included with this distribution for details.
  */
 
+apply from: 'untar.gradle'
+
 buildscript {
 	ext.kotlin_version = '2.3.0'
 
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ buildscript {
 		mavenCentral()
 	}
 	dependencies {
-		classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.13.2'
+		classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:9.1.0'
 		classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.4.4'
 		classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
 		classpath 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-json:3.0.17'
diff --git a/android/cli/commands/_build.js b/android/cli/commands/_build.js
index e3b90f34568..3d29239050d 100644
--- a/android/cli/commands/_build.js
+++ b/android/cli/commands/_build.js
@@ -2228,6 +2228,8 @@ class AndroidBuilder extends Builder {
 		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.nonTransitiveRClass', value: 'false' });
 		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'org.gradle.jvmargs', value: `-Xmx${this.javacMaxMemory}` });
 		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'org.gradle.configuration-cache', value: 'true' });
+		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.builtInKotlin', value: 'false' });
+		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.newDsl', value: 'false' });
 		await gradlew.writeGradlePropertiesFile(gradleProperties);
 
 		// Copy optional "gradle.properties" file contents from Titanium project to the above generated file.
diff --git a/android/cli/commands/_buildModule.js b/android/cli/commands/_buildModule.js
index 130b53caa54..1362020fec4 100644
--- a/android/cli/commands/_buildModule.js
+++ b/android/cli/commands/_buildModule.js
@@ -523,6 +523,8 @@ export class AndroidModuleBuilder extends Builder {
 		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.useAndroidX', value: 'true' });
 		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.suppressUnsupportedCompileSdk', value: '35' });
 		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.nonTransitiveRClass', value: 'false' });
+		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.builtInKotlin', value: 'false' });
+		gradleProperties.push({ key: 'android.newDsl', value: 'false' });
 		gradleProperties.push({
 			key: 'org.gradle.jvmargs',
 			value: `-Xmx${this.javacMaxMemory} -Dkotlin.daemon.jvm.options="-Xmx${this.javacMaxMemory}"`
diff --git a/android/gradle.properties b/android/gradle.properties
index 0060c7f913b..e9ca630f63f 100644
--- a/android/gradle.properties
+++ b/android/gradle.properties
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Set max Java heap size for Gradle daemon process.
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536m
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2g
+
+# Enable parallel build execution
+org.gradle.parallel=true
 
 # Enable usage of Google's AndroidX libraries.
 # Note: Jetifier is not needed for test app since it doesn't use Google's deprecated support libraries.
@@ -14,3 +17,7 @@ android.useAndroidX=true
 android.enableJetifier=false
 android.nonTransitiveRClass=false
 android.suppressUnsupportedCompileSdk=35
+
+# opt-out of build in kotlin (v9 feature) - need to be changed for Gradle 10 (smae in _build/_buildModule)
+android.builtInKotlin=false
+android.newDsl=false
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 7705927e949..5be30bbeb24 100644
--- a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.4.0-all.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/android/gradlew.bat b/android/gradlew.bat
index d8362afbfa2..5eed7ee8452 100644
--- a/android/gradlew.bat
+++ b/android/gradlew.bat
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 @rem
 @rem ##########################################################################
 
-@rem Set local scope for the variables with Windows NT shell
+@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ set CLASSPATH=
 "%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" -jar "%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar" %*
 
 :end
-@rem End local scope for the variables with Windows NT shell
+@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
 if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
 
 :fail
diff --git a/android/templates/build/root.build.gradle b/android/templates/build/root.build.gradle
index 82d855a64c7..46ec4283269 100644
--- a/android/templates/build/root.build.gradle
+++ b/android/templates/build/root.build.gradle
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ buildscript {
 		mavenCentral()
 	}
 	dependencies {
-		classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.13.2'
+		classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:9.1.0'
 		classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.4.4'
 		classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
 		<% for (let i = 0; i < classpaths.length; i++) {%>
diff --git a/android/titanium/libv8-services.js b/android/titanium/libv8-services.js
index bad75afa368..dea05922367 100644
--- a/android/titanium/libv8-services.js
+++ b/android/titanium/libv8-services.js
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ async function updateLibrary() {
 		console.log(`Decompressing downloaded V8 file: ${inFile}`);
 		const untarCommandLine
 			= quotePath(path.join(__dirname, '..', isWindows ? 'gradlew.bat' : 'gradlew'))
-			+ ' -b ' + quotePath(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'untar.gradle'))
+			+ ' -p ' + quotePath(path.join(__dirname, '..'))
 			+ ' -Pcompression=bzip2'
 			+ ' -Psrc=' + quotePath(inFile)
 			+ ' -Pdest=' + quotePath(outDir);