diff --git a/android/gradle.properties b/android/gradle.properties
index 7f59ec35da..82f9e2b7fb 100644
--- a/android/gradle.properties
+++ b/android/gradle.properties
@@ -2,4 +2,8 @@
 # org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache=true
 
 android.useAndroidX=true
-android.enableJetifier=true
\ No newline at end of file
+android.enableJetifier=true
+
+# todo: proper solution is to make SocketCANIoStream not part of Android by extracting in from ecu_io
+# todo: some sort of factory in LinkManager
+javaCanVersion=3.2.0