diff --git a/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js b/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js
index 5fc378c4..89556fef 100644
--- a/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js
+++ b/bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js
@@ -223,6 +223,14 @@ 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 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 gradleWrapperPropertiesPath = path.join(projectPath, 'gradle', 'wrapper', 'gradle-wrapper.properties');
+                shell.sed('-i', distributionUrlRegex, distributionUrl, gradleWrapperPropertiesPath);
+
                 // Update the version of build.gradle in each dependent library.
                 var pluginBuildGradle = path.join(projectPath, 'cordova', 'lib', 'plugin-build.gradle');
                 var subProjects = extractSubProjectPaths();
diff --git a/framework/build.gradle b/framework/build.gradle
index e9d06ea2..b9e9cdf7 100644
--- a/framework/build.gradle
+++ b/framework/build.gradle
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ buildscript {
         // * framework/build.gradle
         // * bin/templates/project/cordova.gradle
         // * bin/templates/cordova/lib/plugin-build.gradle
+        // * distributionUrl within bin/templates/cordova/lib/build.js.
         classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.12.+'
     }
 }