diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7bc334b59..2db8d71be 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ language: android
 
 jdk: oraclejdk8
 
+sudo: required
+
 install:
   - pip install --user 'requests[security]'
   - wget -r -nH -nd -np -R index.html* robots.txt* http://download.kiwix.org/dev/android/api/licenses/ -e robots=off -P $ANDROID_HOME/licenses || true