diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 5d12c5a7c..67bd46992 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ jobs:
         if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
         run: git checkout -B ${{ github.head_ref }}
 
-      - name: set up JDK 11
+      - name: set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
-          java-version: 11
+          java-version: 17
           distribution: "temurin"
           cache: 'gradle'
 
@@ -66,8 +66,13 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 20
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        # api-level 19 is min sdk, but throws errors related to desugaring
-        api-level: [ 21, 29 ]
+        include:
+          - api-level: 21
+            target: default
+            arch: x86
+          - api-level: 33
+            target: google_apis # emulator API 33 only exists with Google APIs
+            arch: x86_64
 
     permissions:
       contents: read
@@ -75,10 +80,10 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-      - name: set up JDK 11
+      - name: set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
-          java-version: 11
+          java-version: 17
           distribution: "temurin"
           cache: 'gradle'
 
@@ -86,8 +91,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: reactivecircus/android-emulator-runner@v2
         with:
           api-level: ${{ matrix.api-level }}
-          # workaround to emulator bug: https://github.com/ReactiveCircus/android-emulator-runner/issues/160
-          emulator-build: 7425822
+          target: ${{ matrix.target }}
+          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
           script: ./gradlew connectedCheck --stacktrace
 
       - name: Upload test report when tests fail # because the printed out stacktrace (console) is too short, see also #7553
@@ -108,10 +113,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0  # Shallow clones should be disabled for a better relevancy of analysis
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
+      - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
-          java-version: 11 # Sonar requires JDK 11
+          java-version: 17
           distribution: "temurin"
           cache: 'gradle'
 
diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index 11bab00c5..4d350a006 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ android {
         // Flag to enable support for the new language APIs
         coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled true
 
-        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_11
-        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_11
+        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
+        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
         encoding 'utf-8'
     }
 
     kotlinOptions {
-        jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_11
+        jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
     }
 
     sourceSets {
@@ -98,10 +98,11 @@ android {
     }
 
     packagingOptions {
-        // remove two files which belong to jsoup
-        // no idea how they ended up in the META-INF dir...
-        exclude 'META-INF/README.md'
-        exclude 'META-INF/CHANGES'
+        resources {
+            // remove two files which belong to jsoup
+            // no idea how they ended up in the META-INF dir...
+            excludes += ['META-INF/README.md', 'META-INF/CHANGES']
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index d199d60f8..ae41b1c89 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.0'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.0.0'
         classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 032d70cee..7b138b24e 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+android.defaults.buildfeatures.buildconfig=true
 android.enableJetifier=false
+android.nonFinalResIds=false
+android.nonTransitiveRClass=false
 android.useAndroidX=true
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M --add-opens jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.model=ALL-UNNAMED
 systemProp.file.encoding=utf-8
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 249e5832f..c1962a79e 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 5116c5b18..8196ca199 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip
-distributionSha256Sum=f6b8596b10cce501591e92f229816aa4046424f3b24d771751b06779d58c8ec4
+distributionSha256Sum=a62c5f99585dd9e1f95dab7b9415a0e698fa9dd1e6c38537faa81ac078f4d23e
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index a69d9cb6c..aeb74cbb4 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 +80,10 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -143,12 +140,16 @@ fi
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -193,6 +194,10 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
+
+# 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, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
 #     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 53a6b238d..6689b85be 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%