diff --git a/ReactAndroid/build.gradle b/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
index ef343d4a7..464a2ad18 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
+++ b/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
@@ -29,17 +29,11 @@ task downloadBoost(dependsOn: createNativeDepsDirectories, type: Download) {
     dest new File(downloadsDir, 'boost_1_57_0.zip')
 }
 
-task prepareBoost(dependsOn: downloadBoost) {
-    inputs.files downloadBoost.dest, 'src/main/jni/third-party/boost/Android.mk'
-    outputs.dir "$thirdPartyNdkDir/boost"
-    doLast {
-        copy {
-            from { zipTree(downloadBoost.dest) }
-            from 'src/main/jni/third-party/boost/Android.mk'
-            include 'boost_1_57_0/boost/**/*.hpp', 'Android.mk'
-            into "$thirdPartyNdkDir/boost"
-        }
-    }
+task prepareBoost(dependsOn: downloadBoost, type: Copy) {
+    from zipTree(downloadBoost.dest)
+    from 'src/main/jni/third-party/boost/Android.mk'
+    include 'boost_1_57_0/boost/**/*.hpp', 'Android.mk'
+    into "$thirdPartyNdkDir/boost"
 }
 
 task downloadDoubleConversion(dependsOn: createNativeDepsDirectories, type: Download) {
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index d87035a39..eed2379a8 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ buildscript {
         mavenLocal()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.3.1'
-        classpath 'de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:1.2'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5.0'
+        classpath 'de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:2.0.0'
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 8c0fb64a8..941144813 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 0c71e760d..9881fc8cf 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Wed Apr 10 15:27:10 PDT 2013
+#Mon Dec 14 14:06:01 GMT 2015
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2.1-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.9-bin.zip
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 91a7e269e..9d82f7891 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@ case "`uname`" in
     ;;
 esac
 
-# For Cygwin, ensure paths are in UNIX format before anything is touched.
-if $cygwin ; then
-    [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --unix "$JAVA_HOME"`
-fi
-
 # Attempt to set APP_HOME
 # Resolve links: $0 may be a link
 PRG="$0"
@@ -61,9 +56,9 @@ while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
     fi
 done
 SAVED="`pwd`"
-cd "`dirname \"$PRG\"`/" >&-
+cd "`dirname \"$PRG\"`/" >/dev/null
 APP_HOME="`pwd -P`"
-cd "$SAVED" >&-
+cd "$SAVED" >/dev/null
 
 CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
 
@@ -114,6 +109,7 @@ fi
 if $cygwin ; then
     APP_HOME=`cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME"`
     CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH"`
+    JAVACMD=`cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD"`
 
     # We build the pattern for arguments to be converted via cygpath
     ROOTDIRSRAW=`find -L / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d 2>/dev/null`