diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index 24af511643..911eb30873 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ general:
 machine:
   environment:
     PATH: $ANDROID_NDK:$PATH
+    GRADLE_OPTS: '-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx2048m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError"'
 test:
   override:
     - ./gradlew assembleDebug -PdisablePreDex