diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 743d66d53..ead624c1b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -29,11 +29,8 @@ example
 **/assets/www/cordova.js
 
 /test/.externalNativeBuild
-
-!/templates/project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
-!/test/androidx/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
 /test/androidx/cdv-gradle-config.json
-
+/test/androidx/tools
 /test/assets/www/.tmp*
 /test/assets/www/cordova.js
 /test/bin
diff --git a/lib/builders/ProjectBuilder.js b/lib/builders/ProjectBuilder.js
index 7e75d1f40..7dbc3c07e 100644
--- a/lib/builders/ProjectBuilder.js
+++ b/lib/builders/ProjectBuilder.js
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ const fs = require('fs-extra');
 const path = require('path');
 const execa = require('execa');
 const glob = require('fast-glob');
-const semver = require('semver');
 const events = require('cordova-common').events;
 const CordovaError = require('cordova-common').CordovaError;
 const check_reqs = require('../check_reqs');
@@ -30,8 +29,6 @@ const { compareByAll, isWindows } = require('../utils');
 const { createEditor } = require('properties-parser');
 const CordovaGradleConfigParserFactory = require('../config/CordovaGradleConfigParserFactory');
 
-const MIN_GRADLE_REQUIRED = '8.6';
-
 const MARKER = 'YOUR CHANGES WILL BE ERASED!';
 const SIGNING_PROPERTIES = '-signing.properties';
 const TEMPLATE =
@@ -118,7 +115,7 @@ class ProjectBuilder {
     }
 
     getGradleWrapperPath () {
-        let wrapper = path.join(this.root, 'gradlew');
+        let wrapper = path.join(this.root, 'tools', 'gradlew');
 
         if (isWindows()) {
             wrapper += '.bat';
@@ -133,16 +130,11 @@ class ProjectBuilder {
      * @returns {Promise<void>}
      */
     async installGradleWrapper (gradleVersion) {
-        if (semver.compare(semver.coerce(MIN_GRADLE_REQUIRED), semver.coerce(gradleVersion)) === 1) {
-            throw new CordovaError(`Cannot install Gradle ${gradleVersion}. Minimum Required is ${MIN_GRADLE_REQUIRED}.`);
-        }
-
-        const wrapper = this.getGradleWrapperPath();
         if (process.env.CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL) {
             events.emit('verbose', `Overriding Gradle Version via CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL (${process.env.CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL})`);
-            await execa(wrapper, ['-p', this.root, 'wrapper', '--gradle-distribution-url', process.env.CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL, '--validate-url'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
+            await execa('gradle', ['-p', path.join(this.root, 'tools'), 'wrapper', '--gradle-distribution-url', process.env.CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL, '--validate-url'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
         } else {
-            await execa(wrapper, ['-p', this.root, 'wrapper', '--gradle-version', gradleVersion, '--validate-url'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
+            await execa('gradle', ['-p', path.join(this.root, 'tools'), 'wrapper', '--gradle-version', gradleVersion, '--validate-url'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/lib/create.js b/lib/create.js
index 63c9b2413..303ced12d 100755
--- a/lib/create.js
+++ b/lib/create.js
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ function copyBuildRules (projectPath) {
     fs.copySync(path.join(srcDir, 'app', 'repositories.gradle'), path.join(projectPath, 'app', 'repositories.gradle'));
     fs.copySync(path.join(srcDir, 'repositories.gradle'), path.join(projectPath, 'repositories.gradle'));
 
-    copyGradleWrapper(projectPath);
+    copyGradleTools(projectPath);
 }
 
 function copyScripts (projectPath) {
@@ -171,12 +171,10 @@ function validateProjectName (project_name) {
     return Promise.resolve();
 }
 
-function copyGradleWrapper (projectPath) {
+function copyGradleTools (projectPath) {
     const srcDir = path.join(ROOT, 'templates', 'project');
 
-    fs.copySync(path.resolve(srcDir, 'gradle'), path.resolve(projectPath, 'gradle'));
-    fs.copySync(path.resolve(srcDir, 'gradlew'), path.resolve(projectPath, 'gradlew'));
-    fs.copySync(path.resolve(srcDir, 'gradlew.bat'), path.resolve(projectPath, 'gradlew.bat'));
+    fs.copySync(path.resolve(srcDir, 'tools'), path.resolve(projectPath, 'tools'));
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/spec/unit/builders/ProjectBuilder.spec.js b/spec/unit/builders/ProjectBuilder.spec.js
index d2a6fe705..dcd620c7b 100644
--- a/spec/unit/builders/ProjectBuilder.spec.js
+++ b/spec/unit/builders/ProjectBuilder.spec.js
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
     under the License.
 */
 
-const { CordovaError } = require('cordova-common');
 const fs = require('fs-extra');
 const path = require('path');
 const rewire = require('rewire');
@@ -135,27 +134,16 @@ describe('ProjectBuilder', () => {
             execaSpy.and.resolveTo();
         });
 
-        let gradle = path.normalize('/root/gradlew');
-        if (isWindows()) {
-            gradle += '.bat';
-        }
-
         it('should run gradle wrapper 8.7', async () => {
             await builder.installGradleWrapper('8.7');
-            expect(execaSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(gradle, ['-p', '/root', 'wrapper', '--gradle-version', '8.7', '--validate-url'], jasmine.any(Object));
+            expect(execaSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('gradle', ['-p', path.normalize('/root/tools'), 'wrapper', '--gradle-version', '8.7', '--validate-url'], jasmine.any(Object));
         });
 
         it('CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL should override gradle version', async () => {
             process.env.CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL = 'https://dist.local';
             await builder.installGradleWrapper('8.7');
             delete process.env.CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL;
-            expect(execaSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(gradle, ['-p', '/root', 'wrapper', '--gradle-distribution-url', 'https://dist.local', '--validate-url'], jasmine.any(Object));
-        });
-
-        it('should error if attempting to install an unacceptable gradle version', async () => {
-            const UNACCEPTABLE_VERSION = '8.5';
-            await expectAsync(builder.installGradleWrapper(UNACCEPTABLE_VERSION))
-                .toBeRejectedWithError(CordovaError, new RegExp(`^Cannot install Gradle ${UNACCEPTABLE_VERSION}.+`));
+            expect(execaSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('gradle', ['-p', path.normalize('/root/tools'), 'wrapper', '--gradle-distribution-url', 'https://dist.local', '--validate-url'], jasmine.any(Object));
         });
     });
 
@@ -188,7 +176,7 @@ describe('ProjectBuilder', () => {
 
             builder.build({});
 
-            let gradle = path.join(rootDir, 'gradlew');
+            let gradle = path.join(rootDir, 'tools', 'gradlew');
             if (isWindows()) {
                 gradle += '.bat';
             }
@@ -250,7 +238,7 @@ describe('ProjectBuilder', () => {
             const gradleArgs = ['test', 'args', '-f'];
             builder.getArgs.and.returnValue(gradleArgs);
 
-            let gradle = path.join(rootDir, 'gradlew');
+            let gradle = path.join(rootDir, 'tools', 'gradlew');
             if (isWindows()) {
                 gradle += '.bat';
             }
diff --git a/templates/project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/templates/project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index e6441136f..000000000
Binary files a/templates/project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/templates/project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/templates/project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index b82aa23a4..000000000
--- a/templates/project/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.7-bin.zip
-networkTimeout=10000
-validateDistributionUrl=true
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/templates/project/gradlew b/templates/project/gradlew
deleted file mode 100755
index 1aa94a426..000000000
--- a/templates/project/gradlew
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,249 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#
-# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-##############################################################################
-#
-#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
-#
-#   Important for running:
-#
-#   (1) You need a POSIX-compliant shell to run this script. If your /bin/sh is
-#       noncompliant, but you have some other compliant shell such as ksh or
-#       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
-#       command line, like:
-#
-#           ksh Gradle
-#
-#       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
-#       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
-#         * functions;
-#         * expansions «$var», «${var}», «${var:-default}», «${var+SET}»,
-#           «${var#prefix}», «${var%suffix}», and «$( cmd )»;
-#         * compound commands having a testable exit status, especially «case»;
-#         * various built-in commands including «command», «set», and «ulimit».
-#
-#   Important for patching:
-#
-#   (2) This script targets any POSIX shell, so it avoids extensions provided
-#       by Bash, Ksh, etc; in particular arrays are avoided.
-#
-#       The "traditional" practice of packing multiple parameters into a
-#       space-separated string is a well documented source of bugs and security
-#       problems, so this is (mostly) avoided, by progressively accumulating
-#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
-#
-#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
-#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
-#       see the in-line comments for details.
-#
-#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
-#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
-#
-#   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       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/.
-#
-##############################################################################
-
-# Attempt to set APP_HOME
-
-# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
-app_path=$0
-
-# Need this for daisy-chained symlinks.
-while
-    APP_HOME=${app_path%"${app_path##*/}"}  # leaves a trailing /; empty if no leading path
-    [ -h "$app_path" ]
-do
-    ls=$( ls -ld "$app_path" )
-    link=${ls#*' -> '}
-    case $link in             #(
-      /*)   app_path=$link ;; #(
-      *)    app_path=$APP_HOME$link ;;
-    esac
-done
-
-# This is normally unused
-# shellcheck disable=SC2034
-APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
-MAX_FD=maximum
-
-warn () {
-    echo "$*"
-} >&2
-
-die () {
-    echo
-    echo "$*"
-    echo
-    exit 1
-} >&2
-
-# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
-cygwin=false
-msys=false
-darwin=false
-nonstop=false
-case "$( uname )" in                #(
-  CYGWIN* )         cygwin=true  ;; #(
-  Darwin* )         darwin=true  ;; #(
-  MSYS* | MINGW* )  msys=true    ;; #(
-  NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
-esac
-
-CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-
-# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
-if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
-    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
-        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
-        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java
-    else
-        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
-    fi
-    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
-        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-    fi
-else
-    JAVACMD=java
-    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
-    then
-        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-    fi
-fi
-
-# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
-if ! "$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 $MAX_FD"
-    esac
-fi
-
-# Collect all arguments for the java command, stacking in reverse order:
-#   * args from the command line
-#   * the main class name
-#   * -classpath
-#   * -D...appname settings
-#   * --module-path (only if needed)
-#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and GRADLE_OPTS environment variables.
-
-# For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
-if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
-    APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
-    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
-
-    JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
-
-    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
-    for arg do
-        if
-            case $arg in                                #(
-              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
-              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
-                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
-              *)    false ;;
-            esac
-        then
-            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
-        fi
-        # Roll the args list around exactly as many times as the number of
-        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
-        # possibly modified.
-        #
-        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
-        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
-        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
-        shift                   # remove old arg
-        set -- "$@" "$arg"      # push replacement arg
-    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, 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=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
-        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
-        org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
-        "$@"
-
-# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
-if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
-then
-    die "xargs is not available"
-fi
-
-# Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
-#
-# With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
-#
-# In Bash we could simply go:
-#
-#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
-#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
-#
-# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
-# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
-# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
-# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap
-# the whole thing up as a single "set" statement.
-#
-# This will of course break if any of these variables contains a newline or
-# an unmatched quote.
-#
-
-eval "set -- $(
-        printf '%s\n' "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS" |
-        xargs -n1 |
-        sed ' s~[^-[:alnum:]+,./:=@_]~\\&~g; ' |
-        tr '\n' ' '
-    )" '"$@"'
-
-exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/templates/project/gradlew.bat b/templates/project/gradlew.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 25da30dbd..000000000
--- a/templates/project/gradlew.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-@rem
-@rem Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
-@rem
-@rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-@rem you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-@rem You may obtain a copy of the License at
-@rem
-@rem      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-@rem
-@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-@rem limitations under the License.
-@rem
-
-@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
-@rem ##########################################################################
-@rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
-@rem
-@rem ##########################################################################
-
-@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-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%
-
-@rem Resolve any "." and ".." in APP_HOME to make it shorter.
-for %%i in ("%APP_HOME%") do set APP_HOME=%%~fi
-
-@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
-
-@rem Find java.exe
-if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
-
-set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
-%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
-
-echo. 1>&2
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. 1>&2
-echo. 1>&2
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
-echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
-
-goto fail
-
-:findJavaFromJavaHome
-set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
-set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
-
-if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
-
-echo. 1>&2
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME% 1>&2
-echo. 1>&2
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
-echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
-
-goto fail
-
-:execute
-@rem Setup the command line
-
-set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-
-@rem Execute Gradle
-"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %*
-
-:end
-@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
-
-:fail
-rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
-rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
-if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
-if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
-exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
-
-:mainEnd
-if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
-
-:omega
diff --git a/templates/project/tools/settings.gradle b/templates/project/tools/settings.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c6c0f3e6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/project/tools/settings.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+       Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+       or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+       distributed with this work for additional information
+       regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+       to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+       "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+       with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+       Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+       software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+       "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+       KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+       specific language governing permissions and limitations
+       under the License.
+*/
+
+// This is an empty project used to provide Gradle Tooling
+// Using the main project which loads AGP will enforce a minimum version
+// requirement on the end-user, requiring a gradle install that satisfies AGP
+// version requirements.
+// To avoid that, we utilise this empty project of which we can
+// freely run the gradle wrapper task against to obtain the 
+// wrapper at the desired version, without being restricted by AGP's version
+// requirements.
+// Of course, the installed wrapper must still be of at least the minimum
+// required version of AGP for the build to work correctly.
diff --git a/test/androidx/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/test/androidx/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index e6441136f..000000000
Binary files a/test/androidx/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/test/androidx/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/test/androidx/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index b82aa23a4..000000000
--- a/test/androidx/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.7-bin.zip
-networkTimeout=10000
-validateDistributionUrl=true
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/test/androidx/gradlew b/test/androidx/gradlew
deleted file mode 100755
index 1aa94a426..000000000
--- a/test/androidx/gradlew
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,249 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#
-# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-##############################################################################
-#
-#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
-#
-#   Important for running:
-#
-#   (1) You need a POSIX-compliant shell to run this script. If your /bin/sh is
-#       noncompliant, but you have some other compliant shell such as ksh or
-#       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
-#       command line, like:
-#
-#           ksh Gradle
-#
-#       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
-#       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
-#         * functions;
-#         * expansions «$var», «${var}», «${var:-default}», «${var+SET}»,
-#           «${var#prefix}», «${var%suffix}», and «$( cmd )»;
-#         * compound commands having a testable exit status, especially «case»;
-#         * various built-in commands including «command», «set», and «ulimit».
-#
-#   Important for patching:
-#
-#   (2) This script targets any POSIX shell, so it avoids extensions provided
-#       by Bash, Ksh, etc; in particular arrays are avoided.
-#
-#       The "traditional" practice of packing multiple parameters into a
-#       space-separated string is a well documented source of bugs and security
-#       problems, so this is (mostly) avoided, by progressively accumulating
-#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
-#
-#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
-#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
-#       see the in-line comments for details.
-#
-#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
-#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
-#
-#   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       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/.
-#
-##############################################################################
-
-# Attempt to set APP_HOME
-
-# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
-app_path=$0
-
-# Need this for daisy-chained symlinks.
-while
-    APP_HOME=${app_path%"${app_path##*/}"}  # leaves a trailing /; empty if no leading path
-    [ -h "$app_path" ]
-do
-    ls=$( ls -ld "$app_path" )
-    link=${ls#*' -> '}
-    case $link in             #(
-      /*)   app_path=$link ;; #(
-      *)    app_path=$APP_HOME$link ;;
-    esac
-done
-
-# This is normally unused
-# shellcheck disable=SC2034
-APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
-MAX_FD=maximum
-
-warn () {
-    echo "$*"
-} >&2
-
-die () {
-    echo
-    echo "$*"
-    echo
-    exit 1
-} >&2
-
-# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
-cygwin=false
-msys=false
-darwin=false
-nonstop=false
-case "$( uname )" in                #(
-  CYGWIN* )         cygwin=true  ;; #(
-  Darwin* )         darwin=true  ;; #(
-  MSYS* | MINGW* )  msys=true    ;; #(
-  NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
-esac
-
-CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-
-# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
-if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
-    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
-        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
-        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java
-    else
-        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
-    fi
-    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
-        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-    fi
-else
-    JAVACMD=java
-    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
-    then
-        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-    fi
-fi
-
-# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
-if ! "$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 $MAX_FD"
-    esac
-fi
-
-# Collect all arguments for the java command, stacking in reverse order:
-#   * args from the command line
-#   * the main class name
-#   * -classpath
-#   * -D...appname settings
-#   * --module-path (only if needed)
-#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and GRADLE_OPTS environment variables.
-
-# For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
-if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
-    APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
-    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
-
-    JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
-
-    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
-    for arg do
-        if
-            case $arg in                                #(
-              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
-              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
-                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
-              *)    false ;;
-            esac
-        then
-            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
-        fi
-        # Roll the args list around exactly as many times as the number of
-        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
-        # possibly modified.
-        #
-        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
-        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
-        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
-        shift                   # remove old arg
-        set -- "$@" "$arg"      # push replacement arg
-    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, 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=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
-        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
-        org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
-        "$@"
-
-# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
-if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
-then
-    die "xargs is not available"
-fi
-
-# Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
-#
-# With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
-#
-# In Bash we could simply go:
-#
-#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
-#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
-#
-# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
-# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
-# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
-# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap
-# the whole thing up as a single "set" statement.
-#
-# This will of course break if any of these variables contains a newline or
-# an unmatched quote.
-#
-
-eval "set -- $(
-        printf '%s\n' "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS" |
-        xargs -n1 |
-        sed ' s~[^-[:alnum:]+,./:=@_]~\\&~g; ' |
-        tr '\n' ' '
-    )" '"$@"'
-
-exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/test/androidx/gradlew.bat b/test/androidx/gradlew.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 25da30dbd..000000000
--- a/test/androidx/gradlew.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-@rem
-@rem Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
-@rem
-@rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-@rem you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-@rem You may obtain a copy of the License at
-@rem
-@rem      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-@rem
-@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-@rem limitations under the License.
-@rem
-
-@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
-@rem ##########################################################################
-@rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
-@rem
-@rem ##########################################################################
-
-@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-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%
-
-@rem Resolve any "." and ".." in APP_HOME to make it shorter.
-for %%i in ("%APP_HOME%") do set APP_HOME=%%~fi
-
-@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
-
-@rem Find java.exe
-if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
-
-set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
-%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
-
-echo. 1>&2
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. 1>&2
-echo. 1>&2
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
-echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
-
-goto fail
-
-:findJavaFromJavaHome
-set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
-set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
-
-if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
-
-echo. 1>&2
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME% 1>&2
-echo. 1>&2
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
-echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
-
-goto fail
-
-:execute
-@rem Setup the command line
-
-set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-
-@rem Execute Gradle
-"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %*
-
-:end
-@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
-
-:fail
-rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
-rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
-if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
-if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
-exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
-
-:mainEnd
-if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
-
-:omega
diff --git a/test/run_java_unit_tests.js b/test/run_java_unit_tests.js
index 2d8ee2357..816ab6b02 100644
--- a/test/run_java_unit_tests.js
+++ b/test/run_java_unit_tests.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class AndroidTestRunner {
     constructor (testTitle, projectDir) {
         this.testTitle = testTitle;
         this.projectDir = projectDir;
-        this.gradleWrapper = path.join(this.projectDir, 'gradlew');
+        this.gradleWrapper = path.join(this.projectDir, 'tools/gradlew');
     }
 
     _gradlew (...args) {
@@ -62,15 +62,16 @@ class AndroidTestRunner {
             .then(_ => {
                 // TODO we should probably not only copy these files, but instead create a new project from scratch
                 fs.copyFileSync(path.resolve(this.projectDir, '../../framework/cdv-gradle-config-defaults.json'), path.resolve(this.projectDir, 'cdv-gradle-config.json'));
+                fs.copySync(path.resolve(this.projectDir, '../../templates/project/tools'), path.resolve(this.projectDir, 'tools'));
                 fs.copyFileSync(
                     path.join(__dirname, '../templates/project/assets/www/cordova.js'),
                     path.join(this.projectDir, 'app/src/main/assets/www/cordova.js')
                 );
             })
             .then(_ => this._createProjectBuilder())
-            .then(_ => this._gradlew('--version'))
+            .then(_ => this._gradlew(['--version']))
             .then(_ => console.log(`[${this.testTitle}] Gradle wrapper is ready. Running tests now.`))
-            .then(_ => this._gradlew('test'))
+            .then(_ => this._gradlew(['test']))
             .then(_ => console.log(`[${this.testTitle}] Java unit tests completed successfully`));
     }
 }