diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/build-publish.yml
index 48e39a51404..b14fb5b2396 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-publish.yml
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
@@ -162,11 +162,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
@@ -199,11 +199,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
@@ -237,11 +237,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
@@ -315,11 +315,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
@@ -367,11 +367,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-pullrequest.yml b/.github/workflows/build-pullrequest.yml
index 55284aec87a..a37e677676a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-pullrequest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-pullrequest.yml
@@ -16,15 +16,16 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: 'recursive'
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
 
       - name: Build & test Java code
         run: |
-          ./gradlew fetchNatives build
+          ./gradlew fetchNatives
+          ./gradlew build
diff --git a/.github/workflows/fix-formatting.yml b/.github/workflows/fix-formatting.yml
index 5fafd1d6b41..fe13855ab5b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/fix-formatting.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/fix-formatting.yml
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
       - name: Generate MobiVM MetalANGLE backend
diff --git a/gradle/dependencies.gradle b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
index 70d6550686f..8c8862ee5c2 100644
--- a/gradle/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ versions.robovm = "2.3.20"
 versions.gwt = "2.10.0"
 versions.gwtPlugin = "1.1.29"
 versions.jsinteropAnnotations = "2.0.2"
-versions.gretty = "3.0.7"
+versions.gretty = "3.1.0"
 versions.jglwf = "1.1"
 versions.lwjgl = "2.9.3"
 versions.lwjgl3 = "3.3.3"
 versions.jlayer = "1.0.1-gdx"
 versions.jorbis = "0.0.17"
 versions.junit = "4.13.2"
-versions.androidPlugin = "7.3.1"
+versions.androidPlugin = "8.1.2"
 versions.multiDex = "2.0.1"
 versions.androidCompileSdk = 33
 versions.androidTargetSdk = 33
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 249e5832f09..7f93135c49b 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index ae04661ee73..3fa8f862f75 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index a69d9cb6c20..1aa94a42690 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -80,13 +80,11 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -133,22 +131,29 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -193,11 +198,15 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 53a6b238d41..6689b85beec 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
 if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%