diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index b7d5c068f..a8ffc9a48 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.0.0-rc01'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.1.0-alpha11'
     }
 }
 
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ android {
 
     buildFeatures {
         viewBinding true
+        buildConfig true
+    }
+
+    androidResources {
+        generateLocaleConfig = true
     }
 
     defaultConfig {
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 6e5de13d6..3c8ba69b7 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 android.useAndroidX=true
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m
diff --git a/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index 31510ae6f..3b28c217d 100644
--- a/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -70,8 +70,7 @@ limitations under the License.
         android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
         android:label="@string/app_name"
         android:supportsRtl="true"
-        android:theme="@style/ThemeCustom"
-        android:localeConfig="@xml/locales_config">
+        android:theme="@style/ThemeCustom">
 
         <activity
             android:name=".publicapi.StartRecording"
diff --git a/src/main/res/resources.properties b/src/main/res/resources.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d5a3ddc92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/res/resources.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+unqualifiedResLocale=en-US
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/res/xml/locales_config.xml b/src/main/res/xml/locales_config.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6149de188..000000000
--- a/src/main/res/xml/locales_config.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<locale-config xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
-    <locale android:name="ar"/>
-    <locale android:name="bg"/>
-    <locale android:name="ca"/>
-    <locale android:name="cs"/>
-    <locale android:name="da"/>
-    <locale android:name="de"/>
-    <locale android:name="el"/>
-    <locale android:name="en"/>
-    <locale android:name="es"/>
-    <locale android:name="et"/>
-    <locale android:name="eu"/>
-    <locale android:name="fa"/>
-    <locale android:name="fi"/>
-    <locale android:name="fr"/>
-    <locale android:name="ga"/>
-    <locale android:name="gl"/>
-    <locale android:name="hi"/>
-    <locale android:name="hr"/>
-    <locale android:name="hu"/>
-    <locale android:name="in"/>
-    <locale android:name="it"/>
-    <locale android:name="iw"/>
-    <locale android:name="ja"/>
-    <locale android:name="ko"/>
-    <locale android:name="lt"/>
-    <locale android:name="lv"/>
-    <locale android:name="mo"/>
-    <locale android:name="ms"/>
-    <locale android:name="nb"/>
-    <locale android:name="nl"/>
-    <locale android:name="pl"/>
-    <locale android:name="pt"/>
-    <locale android:name="ro"/>
-    <locale android:name="ru"/>
-    <locale android:name="sk"/>
-    <locale android:name="sl"/>
-    <locale android:name="sr"/>
-    <locale android:name="sv"/>
-    <locale android:name="th"/>
-    <locale android:name="tl"/>
-    <locale android:name="tr"/>
-    <locale android:name="uk"/>
-    <locale android:name="vi"/>
-    <locale android:name="zh"/>
-</locale-config>