diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index f896b75d95c2..e096cd6260ba 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 org.gradle.parallel=true
 org.gradle.daemon=true
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx32768M
+# Be careful when changing org.gradle.jvmargs below. It will clobber
+# any defaults set by Gradle: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/19750
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx8g -Xms2g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=6g
 android.useAndroidX=true
diff --git a/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-offline/gradle.properties b/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-offline/gradle.properties
index 000366cd2796..3f77ec9a2ff3 100644
--- a/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-offline/gradle.properties
+++ b/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-offline/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 // Per https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html, this
 // overrides the gradle.properties in topsrcdir.
 org.gradle.daemon=false
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx32768M
diff --git a/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-online/gradle.properties b/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-online/gradle.properties
index 000366cd2796..3f77ec9a2ff3 100644
--- a/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-online/gradle.properties
+++ b/mobile/android/gradle/dotgradle-online/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 // Per https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html, this
 // overrides the gradle.properties in topsrcdir.
 org.gradle.daemon=false
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx32768M