diff --git a/animated-gif/build.gradle b/animated-gif/build.gradle
index 8bcd739428..1895cfe018 100644
--- a/animated-gif/build.gradle
+++ b/animated-gif/build.gradle
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ android {
         }
     }
     ndkLibs.each { lib -> makeNdkTasks lib[0], lib[1] }
+    preBuild.dependsOn("ndk_build_gifimage")
 }
 
 apply plugin: "com.vanniktech.maven.publish"
diff --git a/imagepipeline-native/build.gradle b/imagepipeline-native/build.gradle
index 61c78c6804..5e0a6d2fa1 100644
--- a/imagepipeline-native/build.gradle
+++ b/imagepipeline-native/build.gradle
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ android {
         }
     }
     ndkLibs.each { lib -> makeNdkTasks lib[0], lib[1] }
+    preBuild.dependsOn(
+        "ndk_build_bitmaps",
+        "ndk_build_imagepipeline",
+        "ndk_build_memchunk"
+    )
 }
 
 apply plugin: "com.vanniktech.maven.publish"
diff --git a/native-filters/build.gradle b/native-filters/build.gradle
index 0a1c078a27..01d3877361 100644
--- a/native-filters/build.gradle
+++ b/native-filters/build.gradle
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ android {
         abortOnError false
     }
     ndkLibs.each { lib -> makeNdkTasks lib[0], lib[1] }
+    preBuild.dependsOn(
+        "ndk_build_filters",
+        "ndk_build_native-filters"
+    )
 }
 
 apply plugin: "com.vanniktech.maven.publish"
diff --git a/native-imagetranscoder/build.gradle b/native-imagetranscoder/build.gradle
index f09527b411..61bdc75726 100644
--- a/native-imagetranscoder/build.gradle
+++ b/native-imagetranscoder/build.gradle
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ task fetchNativeDeps(dependsOn: [copyLibjpeg]) {
 }
 
 android {
-
     def ndkLibs = [
             ['native-imagetranscoder', [copyLibjpeg]]]
 
@@ -76,6 +75,10 @@ android {
         abortOnError false
     }
     ndkLibs.each { lib -> makeNdkTasks lib[0], lib[1] }
+    preBuild.dependsOn(
+        "ndk_build_native-imagetranscoder",
+        "copyLibjpeg"
+    )
 }
 
 apply plugin: "com.vanniktech.maven.publish"
diff --git a/static-webp/build.gradle b/static-webp/build.gradle
index c0d867b295..f2478a0055 100644
--- a/static-webp/build.gradle
+++ b/static-webp/build.gradle
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ android {
         abortOnError false
     }
     ndkLibs.each { lib -> makeNdkTasks lib[0], lib[1] }
+    preBuild.dependsOn(
+        "ndk_build_static-webp",
+        "copyLibjpeg",
+        "copyLibpng",
+        "copyLibwebp"
+    )
 }
 
 apply plugin: "com.vanniktech.maven.publish"