diff --git a/playback/player/android/build.gradle b/playback/player/android/build.gradle
index e0b366a781..77ce66ea36 100644
--- a/playback/player/android/build.gradle
+++ b/playback/player/android/build.gradle
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ buildscript {
         jcenter()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5.0'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.3'
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
diff --git a/playback/player/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/playback/player/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 428c55e575..fc500fd545 100644
--- a/playback/player/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/playback/player/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Tue May 10 21:58:01 EEST 2016
+#Tue Aug 23 11:07:06 IST 2016
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.8-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip