diff --git a/ring-android/.idea/misc.xml b/ring-android/.idea/misc.xml
index d7bb3975f0aff252c7d33f9a6e751f466728f19f..5d19981032aa01b060f5a568641d7a8840cc90dc 100644
--- a/ring-android/.idea/misc.xml
+++ b/ring-android/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,20 @@
       </value>
     </option>
   </component>
-  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_1_7" default="false" assert-keyword="true" jdk-15="true" project-jdk-name="1.7" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK">
-    <output url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/out" />
+  <component name="ProjectLevelVcsManager" settingsEditedManually="false">
+    <OptionsSetting value="true" id="Add" />
+    <OptionsSetting value="true" id="Remove" />
+    <OptionsSetting value="true" id="Checkout" />
+    <OptionsSetting value="true" id="Update" />
+    <OptionsSetting value="true" id="Status" />
+    <OptionsSetting value="true" id="Edit" />
+    <ConfirmationsSetting value="0" id="Add" />
+    <ConfirmationsSetting value="0" id="Remove" />
+  </component>
+  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_1_7" default="true" assert-keyword="true" jdk-15="true" project-jdk-name="1.8" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK">
+    <output url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/build/classes" />
+  </component>
+  <component name="ProjectType">
+    <option name="id" value="Android" />
   </component>
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ring-android/.idea/uiDesigner.xml b/ring-android/.idea/uiDesigner.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b0002030884f78f1562177d81eb2f42c5acbd43..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ring-android/.idea/uiDesigner.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
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-<project version="4">
-  <component name="Palette2">
-    <group name="Swing">
-      <item class="com.intellij.uiDesigner.HSpacer" tooltip-text="Horizontal Spacer" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/hspacer.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="1" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="1" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="com.intellij.uiDesigner.VSpacer" tooltip-text="Vertical Spacer" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/vspacer.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="1" anchor="0" fill="2" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JPanel" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/panel.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="3" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="3" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JScrollPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/scrollPane.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="7" hsize-policy="7" anchor="0" fill="3" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JButton" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/button.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="1" />
-        <initial-values>
-          <property name="text" value="Button" />
-        </initial-values>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JRadioButton" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/radioButton.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="8" fill="0" />
-        <initial-values>
-          <property name="text" value="RadioButton" />
-        </initial-values>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JCheckBox" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/checkBox.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="8" fill="0" />
-        <initial-values>
-          <property name="text" value="CheckBox" />
-        </initial-values>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JLabel" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/label.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="0" anchor="8" fill="0" />
-        <initial-values>
-          <property name="text" value="Label" />
-        </initial-values>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JTextField" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/textField.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="8" fill="1">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="-1" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JPasswordField" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/passwordField.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="8" fill="1">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="-1" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JFormattedTextField" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/formattedTextField.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="8" fill="1">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="-1" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JTextArea" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/textArea.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JTextPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/textPane.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JEditorPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/editorPane.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JComboBox" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/comboBox.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="2" anchor="8" fill="1" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JTable" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/table.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JList" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/list.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="2" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JTree" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/tree.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JTabbedPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/tabbedPane.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="3" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="200" height="200" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JSplitPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/splitPane.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="3" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="3">
-          <preferred-size width="200" height="200" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JSpinner" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/spinner.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="8" fill="1" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JSlider" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/slider.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="8" fill="1" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JSeparator" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/separator.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JProgressBar" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/progressbar.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="1" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JToolBar" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/toolbar.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="1">
-          <preferred-size width="-1" height="20" />
-        </default-constraints>
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JToolBar$Separator" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/toolbarSeparator.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="0" anchor="0" fill="1" />
-      </item>
-      <item class="javax.swing.JScrollBar" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/scrollbar.png" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
-        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="0" anchor="0" fill="2" />
-      </item>
-    </group>
-  </component>
-</project>
-
diff --git a/ring-android/app/app.iml b/ring-android/app/app.iml
index 086a36c3db52a8ec0b72ea1a824054ccd23e3141..ce8796eb5423d1e96e463085156ead945520002e 100644
--- a/ring-android/app/app.iml
+++ b/ring-android/app/app.iml
@@ -63,12 +63,9 @@
       <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/androidTest/jni" isTestSource="true" />
       <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/androidTest/rs" isTestSource="true" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/assets" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/bundles" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/blame" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/classes" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/coverage-instrumented-classes" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/dependency-cache" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/dex" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/dex-cache" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/appcompat-v7/23.1.1/jars" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/cardview-v7/23.1.1/jars" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/design/23.1.1/jars" />
@@ -80,17 +77,14 @@
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.astuetz/pagerslidingtabstrip/1.0.1/jars" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/se.emilsjolander/stickylistheaders/2.7.0/jars" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/incremental" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/jacoco" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/javaResources" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/libs" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/lint" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/jniLibs" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/manifests" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/ndk" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/pre-dexed" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/proguard" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/proguard-rules" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/res" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/rs" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/symbols" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/transforms" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/outputs" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/tmp" />
     </content>
diff --git a/ring-android/build.gradle b/ring-android/build.gradle
index f0c9817f08bb662062ac9f8f8ddaf804b83254f1..c0b79c89b912ad32b2a5ea910d60248946b93ce2 100644
--- a/ring-android/build.gradle
+++ b/ring-android/build.gradle
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ buildscript {
         jcenter()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.3.+'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5.+'
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
@@ -19,5 +19,5 @@ allprojects {
 dependencies {
 }
 task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
-    gradleVersion = '2.4' //version required
+    gradleVersion = '2.8' //version required
 }
diff --git a/ring-android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/ring-android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 62354ba521cb307720b6b4d92dc755d2a02c00d6..8070058618fabff4d61dcef669fda4e357d1a584 100644
--- a/ring-android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/ring-android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.4-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.8-all.zip
diff --git a/ring-android/ring-android.iml b/ring-android/ring-android.iml
index c30d36ecfd3165c419d4ce438cefa53d3ce94da6..a7715c8ac1b15d3038862da44ed7abb8e7ddd587 100644
--- a/ring-android/ring-android.iml
+++ b/ring-android/ring-android.iml
@@ -9,13 +9,11 @@
     </facet>
   </component>
   <component name="NewModuleRootManager" LANGUAGE_LEVEL="JDK_1_7" inherit-compiler-output="true">
-    <output url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/classes/debug" />
-    <output-test url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/classes/androidTest/debug" />
     <exclude-output />
     <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.gradle" />
     </content>
-    <orderEntry type="jdk" jdkName="Android API 23 Platform" jdkType="Android SDK" />
+    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
     <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
   </component>
 </module>
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