diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 5ccfebf974..8755699307 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ android.defaults.buildfeatures.shaders=false
 android.useAndroidX=true
 android.enableHiddenApiCheck=false
 android.hideApiWarning=false
+# Improve build performance by enabling R8 parallelism.
+android.r8.maxWorkers=4
 
 kotlin.code.style=official