diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 184835289..062f54172 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ repositories {
 buildscript {
     repositories {
         jcenter()
+        google()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.3'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.4'
     }
 }
 
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ android {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:${safeExtGet('reactNativeVersion', '+')}"
+    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:${safeExtGet('reactNativeVersion', '+')}"
     //compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:+'
     //{RNFetchBlob_PRE_0.28_DEPDENDENCY}
 }
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 317d481f3..c75df059d 100644
--- a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ 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-4.10.2-bin.zip