diff --git a/oem/firstvoices/android/app/build.gradle b/oem/firstvoices/android/app/build.gradle
index 95bbcf2fa2..334ae2892d 100644
--- a/oem/firstvoices/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/oem/firstvoices/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ android {
     compileSdk 34
     namespace="com.firstvoices.keyboards"
 
+    buildFeatures {
+        buildConfig = true
+    }
+
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId "com.firstvoices.keyboards"
         minSdkVersion 21
@@ -66,12 +70,6 @@ android {
     }
 }
 
-java {
-    toolchain {
-        languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(11))
-    }
-}
-
 // how to configure the sentry android gradle plugin
 task publishSentry {
     doLast {
@@ -124,10 +122,10 @@ repositories {
 
 dependencies {
     implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
-    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.6.1'
+    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.0'
     implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.12.0'
     api(name: 'keyman-engine', ext: 'aar')
-    implementation 'io.sentry:sentry-android:6.9.2'
+    implementation 'io.sentry:sentry-android:7.8.0'
     implementation 'androidx.preference:preference:1.2.1'
 }
 
diff --git a/oem/firstvoices/android/build.gradle b/oem/firstvoices/android/build.gradle
index 4e544b7663..b4bbee2968 100644
--- a/oem/firstvoices/android/build.gradle
+++ b/oem/firstvoices/android/build.gradle
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ buildscript {
     }
 
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2'
-        classpath 'io.sentry:sentry-android-gradle-plugin:2.1.2'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.9.2'
+        classpath 'io.sentry:sentry-android-gradle-plugin:4.6.0'
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
     }
diff --git a/oem/firstvoices/android/build.sh b/oem/firstvoices/android/build.sh
index f7cb441f00..919c81572c 100755
--- a/oem/firstvoices/android/build.sh
+++ b/oem/firstvoices/android/build.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ builder_parse "$@"
 if builder_is_debug_build; then
   builder_heading "### Debug config ####"
   CONFIG="debug"
-  BUILD_FLAGS="assembleDebug -x lint -x test"
+  BUILD_FLAGS="assembleDebug -x lintDebug -x testDebug"
   TEST_FLAGS="-x assembleDebug lintDebug testDebug"
 fi
 
diff --git a/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle.properties b/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle.properties
index c8e906dff4..6831edcea1 100644
--- a/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle.properties
+++ b/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle.properties
@@ -19,4 +19,8 @@
 
 android.enableJetifier=true
 android.useAndroidX=true
+
+# AGP 8.0 generates R classes for resources defined in the current module only.
+android.nonTransitiveRClass=false
+
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m
diff --git a/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 3994438e22..d6e308a637 100644
--- a/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/oem/firstvoices/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6.4-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists