diff --git a/app/build.gradle.kts b/app/build.gradle.kts
index 6380c98e5..bd57d1d8b 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ androidExtensions {
     isExperimental = true
 }
 
+val copyUtils = tasks.register("copyUtils", Copy::class) {
+    from(rootProject.file("scripts/util_functions.sh"))
+    into("src/main/res/raw")
+}
+
+tasks["preBuild"]?.dependsOn(copyUtils)
+
 dependencies {
     implementation(fileTree(mapOf("dir" to "libs", "include" to listOf("*.jar"))))
     implementation(project(":app:shared"))
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index f3d6760e8..2a19b78b7 100755
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -350,10 +350,6 @@ def build_apk(args, module):
 
 def build_app(args):
     header('* Building Magisk Manager')
-    source = op.join('scripts', 'util_functions.sh')
-    target = op.join('app', 'src', 'main',
-                     'res', 'raw', 'util_functions.sh')
-    cp(source, target)
     build_apk(args, 'app')