diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 2a75a8d7b..60521f064 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ buildscript {
   }
 
   dependencies {
-    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.6.+'
+    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.7.+'
   }
 }
 
@@ -36,4 +36,10 @@ android {
       assets.srcDirs = ['tests/assets']
     }
   }
+
+  packagingOptions {
+    exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
+    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
+    exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
+  }
 }
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 216aace60..1cc0eb6ea 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.8-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.9-bin.zip