diff --git a/app/android/app/build.gradle b/app/android/app/build.gradle
index b605f436..88d3d85e 100644
--- a/app/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+plugins {
+    id "com.android.application"
+    id "kotlin-android"
+    id "dev.flutter.flutter-gradle-plugin"
+}
+
 def localProperties = new Properties()
 def localPropertiesFile = rootProject.file('local.properties')
 if (localPropertiesFile.exists()) {
@@ -6,6 +12,12 @@ if (localPropertiesFile.exists()) {
     }
 }
 
+def keystoreProperties = new Properties()
+def keystorePropertiesFile = rootProject.file('key.properties')
+if (keystorePropertiesFile.exists()) {
+    keystoreProperties.load(new FileInputStream(keystorePropertiesFile))
+}
+
 def flutterRoot = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.sdk')
 if (flutterRoot == null) {
     throw new Exception("Flutter SDK not found. Define location with flutter.sdk in the local.properties file.")
@@ -21,35 +33,31 @@ if (flutterVersionName == null) {
     flutterVersionName = '1.0'
 }
 
-apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
-apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
-apply from: "$flutterRoot/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle"
-
 android {
     namespace 'de.hpi.pharme'
-
-    compileSdk flutter.compileSdkVersion
+    compileSdk = flutter.compileSdkVersion
+    ndkVersion = "27.0.12077973"
 
     compileOptions {
-        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
-        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
+        sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
+        targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
     }
 
     kotlinOptions {
-        jvmTarget = '17'
-    }
-
-    sourceSets {
-        main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin'
+        jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
     }
 
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId 'de.hpi.pharme'
         minSdkVersion flutter.minSdkVersion
         targetSdkVersion flutter.targetSdkVersion
+        versionCode = flutterVersionCode.toInteger()
+        versionName = flutterVersionName
         multiDexEnabled true
-        versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger()
-        versionName flutterVersionName
+    }
+
+    dependencies {
+        implementation 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.3'
     }
 
     buildTypes {
@@ -64,7 +72,3 @@ android {
 flutter {
     source '../..'
 }
-
-dependencies {
-    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
-}
diff --git a/app/android/build.gradle b/app/android/build.gradle
index 329f8738..e0e4fa6f 100644
--- a/app/android/build.gradle
+++ b/app/android/build.gradle
@@ -1,16 +1,3 @@
-buildscript {
-    ext.kotlin_version = '1.8.0'
-    repositories {
-        google()
-        mavenCentral()
-    }
-
-    dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2'
-        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
-    }
-}
-
 allprojects {
     repositories {
         google()
@@ -63,13 +50,13 @@ subprojects {
             }
         }
     }
-    project.buildDir = "${rootProject.buildDir}/${project.name}"
-    project.evaluationDependsOn(":app")
 }
 
 rootProject.buildDir = '../build'
 subprojects {
     project.buildDir = "${rootProject.buildDir}/${project.name}"
+}
+subprojects {
     project.evaluationDependsOn(':app')
 }
 
diff --git a/app/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/app/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 5c6f89db..348c409e 100644
--- a/app/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/app/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6.1-bin.zip
-networkTimeout=10000
-validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.9-all.zip
diff --git a/app/android/settings.gradle b/app/android/settings.gradle
index 44e62bcf..f83f10ea 100644
--- a/app/android/settings.gradle
+++ b/app/android/settings.gradle
@@ -1,11 +1,25 @@
-include ':app'
+pluginManagement {
+    def flutterSdkPath = {
+        def properties = new Properties()
+        file("local.properties").withInputStream { properties.load(it) }
+        def flutterSdkPath = properties.getProperty("flutter.sdk")
+        assert flutterSdkPath != null, "flutter.sdk not set in local.properties"
+        return flutterSdkPath
+    }()
 
-def localPropertiesFile = new File(rootProject.projectDir, "local.properties")
-def properties = new Properties()
+    includeBuild("$flutterSdkPath/packages/flutter_tools/gradle")
 
-assert localPropertiesFile.exists()
-localPropertiesFile.withReader("UTF-8") { reader -> properties.load(reader) }
+    repositories {
+        google()
+        mavenCentral()
+        gradlePluginPortal()
+    }
+}
 
-def flutterSdkPath = properties.getProperty("flutter.sdk")
-assert flutterSdkPath != null, "flutter.sdk not set in local.properties"
-apply from: "$flutterSdkPath/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/app_plugin_loader.gradle"
+plugins {
+    id "dev.flutter.flutter-plugin-loader" version "1.0.0"
+    id "com.android.application" version "8.7.1" apply false
+    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.android" version "1.7.10" apply false
+}
+
+include ":app"