diff --git a/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/build.gradle b/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/build.gradle
index 957b6ff61..eb3a0f03b 100644
--- a/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/build.gradle
+++ b/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/build.gradle
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ buildscript {
     }
 
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.4'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1'
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ allprojects {
             }
             consumerProguardFiles 'proguard-rules.pro'
         }
+
+        buildTypes {
+            release {
+                buildConfigField 'String', "SDK_NAME", "\"${ext.sdkName}\""
+                minifyEnabled false
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
@@ -78,8 +85,6 @@ allprojects {
                 release(MavenPublication) {
                     from components.release
 
-                    artifact javadocJar
-                    artifact sourcesJar
 
                     pom {
 
diff --git a/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 84337ad35..39ed000ca 100644
--- a/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+#Fri Dec 22 13:03:39 CET 2023
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9.2-bin.zip
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.1.1-all.zip
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/publish.gradle b/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/publish.gradle
index 387ba61e0..7c658c3ea 100755
--- a/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/publish.gradle
+++ b/AppCenterReactNativeShared/android/publish.gradle
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ ext {
     gitUrl = 'https://github.com/Microsoft/appcenter-sdk-react-native.git'
     groupId = 'com.microsoft.appcenter.reactnative'
     sdkDescription = 'AppCenter SDK for React Native Android'
+    sdkName = 'AppCenter SDK React Native'
 
     Properties properties = new Properties()
     File file = rootProject.file('local.properties')