diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index b4d22ec6eb4fc031d5e71d600bcd294eb7fa58ad..287ede11314f39d7345a9a356cd9b34a01cfbd59 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ release {
     buildTasks = ['build']
     beforeReleaseBuild.dependsOn 'clean'
     afterReleaseBuild.dependsOn 'signRelease', 'zipalignRelease'
+    versionPropertyFile = 'release.properties'
 }
 
 dependencies {
diff --git a/app/gradle.properties b/app/gradle.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 1dd0e26d2b59d84aa9b32ab72e3c5b99065efabe..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/app/gradle.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-version=0.5.0-SNAPSHOT
diff --git a/app/release.properties b/app/release.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59a78457ea34baea8539b2690cfa9ea4ace0575b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/release.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+version=0.5.0