diff --git a/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js b/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js
index 461af3b0..42235706 100644
--- a/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js
+++ b/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js
@@ -238,11 +238,11 @@ var builders = {
                 shell.mkdir('-p', path.join(projectPath, 'gradle'));
                 shell.cp('-r', path.join(wrapperDir, 'gradle', 'wrapper'), path.join(projectPath, 'gradle'));
 
-                // If the gradle distribution URL is set, make sure it points to version 1.12.
+                // If the gradle distribution URL is set, make sure it points to version we want.
                 // If it's not set, do nothing, assuming that we're using a future version of gradle that we don't want to mess with.
                 // For some reason, using ^ and $ don't work.  This does the job, though.
                 var distributionUrlRegex = /distributionUrl.*zip/;
-                var distributionUrl = 'distributionUrl=http\\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.12-all.zip';
+                var distributionUrl = 'distributionUrl=http\\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2.1-all.zip';
                 var gradleWrapperPropertiesPath = path.join(projectPath, 'gradle', 'wrapper', 'gradle-wrapper.properties');
                 shell.sed('-i', distributionUrlRegex, distributionUrl, gradleWrapperPropertiesPath);
 
diff --git a/bin/templates/project/build.gradle b/bin/templates/project/build.gradle
index a8be9c43..1b92eb4d 100644
--- a/bin/templates/project/build.gradle
+++ b/bin/templates/project/build.gradle
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ buildscript {
 }
 
 task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
-    gradleVersion = '1.12'
+    gradleVersion = '2.2.1'
 }
 
 // PLUGIN GRADLE EXTENSIONS START