diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 97ddd37e32..0e847ba7c8 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -9,13 +9,28 @@ variables:
     KEYSTORE_PASSWORD: "android"
     KEY_ALIAS: "androiddebugkey"
     KEY_PASSWORD: "android"
+    ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS: "33.0.2"
+    ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK: "33"
+    ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS: "9477386"
 
 before_script:
+    - export ANDROID_HOME="${PWD}/android-sdk-root"
+    - install -d $ANDROID_HOME
     - export GRADLE_OPTS="-Dorg.gradle.daemon=false"
     - apt-get update -qy
     - apt-get install -y openjdk-17-jdk
     - export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64"
     - chmod +x gradlew
+    - wget --no-verbose --output-document=$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-${ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS}_latest.zip
+    - unzip -q -d "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip"
+    - mv -T "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools"
+    - export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools/bin
+      # use yes to accept all licenses
+    - yes | sdkmanager --licenses > /dev/null || true
+    - sdkmanager "platforms;android-${ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK}"
+    - sdkmanager "platform-tools"
+    - sdkmanager "build-tools;${ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS}"
+
 
 build:
     stage: build