diff --git a/.changes/update-gradle.md b/.changes/update-gradle.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fd66b47f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/update-gradle.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"tauri-cli": patch:enhance
+"@tauri-apps/cli": patch:enhance
+---
+
+Update to latest gradle.
diff --git a/examples/api/.gitignore b/examples/api/.gitignore
index f04ed4ef4..02161ea3e 100644
--- a/examples/api/.gitignore
+++ b/examples/api/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 /node_modules/
 /.vscode/
 .DS_Store
-gen/
 .cargo
 dist/
diff --git a/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/build.gradle.kts b/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/build.gradle.kts
index ef0b4ee43..35b4f5cdf 100644
--- a/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/build.gradle.kts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.0.0")
+        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.3.2")
         classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.6.21")
         {{~#each android-project-dependencies}}
         classpath("{{this}}"){{/each}}
diff --git a/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 40a435065..a03ce6aa2 100644
--- a/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/tooling/cli/templates/mobile/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #Tue May 10 19:22:52 CST 2022
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-bin.zip
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME