diff --git a/android/app/build.gradle b/android/app/build.gradle
index c2898032..4bfa5901 100644
--- a/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ android {
     }
 
     kotlinOptions {
-        jvmTarget = '24'
+        jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_18.toString()
     }
 
     sourceSets {
diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index b42eb3a7..e4ce7a00 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ rootProject.buildDir = '../build'
 subprojects {
     project.buildDir = "${rootProject.buildDir}/${project.name}"
     project.evaluationDependsOn(':app')
+
+    // Skip lint on release builds. The `lintVital*` tasks run lint on every
+    // module (including third-party Flutter plugins) during release assembly
+    // and provide little value here, while repeatedly breaking the build
+    // (e.g. AndroidLintWorkAction failing to initialize on JDK 21). Disabling
+    // the tasks lazily avoids evaluation-order issues with the
+    // `evaluationDependsOn(':app')` above.
+    project.tasks.matching { it.name.startsWith('lintVital') }.configureEach {
+        it.enabled = false
+    }
 }
 
 tasks.register("clean", Delete) {
diff --git a/android/gradle.properties b/android/gradle.properties
index 1f8a3781..54fe6380 100644
--- a/android/gradle.properties
+++ b/android/gradle.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536M
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang.reflect=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang.invoke=ALL-UNNAMED
 android.useAndroidX=true
-android.enableJetifier=true
+android.enableJetifier=false
 kotlin.jvm.target.validation.mode = IGNORE
 # This builtInKotlin flag was added automatically by Flutter migrator
 android.builtInKotlin=false
diff --git a/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 37f853b1..d4081da4 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-8.13-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.3-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME