diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index cffc1039..951f1870 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ buildscript {
   }
 
   dependencies {
-    classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.2"
+    classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.1"
     // noinspection DifferentKotlinGradleVersion
     classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
   }
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def getExtOrIntegerDefault(name) {
   return rootProject.ext.has(name) ? rootProject.ext.get(name) : (project.properties["MapLibreReactNative_" + name]).toInteger()
 }
 
-static def supportsNamespace() {
+def supportsNamespace() {
   def parsed = com.android.Version.ANDROID_GRADLE_PLUGIN_VERSION.tokenize('.')
   def major = parsed[0].toInteger()
   def minor = parsed[1].toInteger()