diff --git a/plugins/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt b/plugins/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt
index c663310f1f..76a66dd519 100644
--- a/plugins/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt
+++ b/plugins/src/main/kotlin/Versions.kt
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ object Versions {
     val versionName = "$versionMajor.$versionMinor.$versionPatch"
     const val compileSdk = 34
     const val targetSdk = 33
+    // When updating the `minSdk`, make sure to update the value of `minSdkVersion` in the file `tools/release/release.sh`
     const val minSdk = 24
     val javaCompileVersion = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
     val javaLanguageVersion: JavaLanguageVersion = JavaLanguageVersion.of(11)
diff --git a/tools/release/release.sh b/tools/release/release.sh
index 2e7999fd21..d51a702388 100755
--- a/tools/release/release.sh
+++ b/tools/release/release.sh
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ if [ ${envError} == 1 ]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-minSdkVersion=23
-buildToolsVersion="32.0.0"
+minSdkVersion=24
+buildToolsVersion="35.0.0"
 buildToolsPath="${androidHome}/build-tools/${buildToolsVersion}"
 
 if [[ ! -d ${buildToolsPath} ]]; then
@@ -230,6 +230,17 @@ printf "Unzipping the F-Droid artifact...\n"
 fdroidTargetPath="${targetPath}/fdroid"
 unzip "${targetPath}"/elementx-app-fdroid-apks-unsigned.zip -d "${fdroidTargetPath}"
 
+printf "\n================================================================================\n"
+printf "Patching the FDroid APKs using inplace-fix.py...\n"
+
+inplaceFixScript="./tmp/inplace-fix.py"
+curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obfusk/reproducible-apk-tools/master/inplace-fix.py --output "${inplaceFixScript}"
+
+python3 "${inplaceFixScript}" --page-size 16 fix-pg-map-id "${fdroidTargetPath}"/app-fdroid-arm64-v8a-release.apk   '0000000'
+python3 "${inplaceFixScript}" --page-size 16 fix-pg-map-id "${fdroidTargetPath}"/app-fdroid-armeabi-v7a-release.apk '0000000'
+python3 "${inplaceFixScript}" --page-size 16 fix-pg-map-id "${fdroidTargetPath}"/app-fdroid-x86-release.apk         '0000000'
+python3 "${inplaceFixScript}" --page-size 16 fix-pg-map-id "${fdroidTargetPath}"/app-fdroid-x86_64-release.apk      '0000000'
+
 printf "\n================================================================================\n"
 printf "Signing the FDroid APKs...\n"