diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/README.md b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/README.md
index ef203e012ce..2bc4dd380a1 100644
--- a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/README.md
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Unit testing Java code
 
-All Java code in the engine should now be able to be tested with Robolectric 4.7.3
+All Java code in the engine should now be able to be tested with Robolectric 4.8.1
 and JUnit 4. The test suite has been added after the bulk of the Java code was
 first written, so most of these classes do not have existing tests. Ideally code
 after this point should be tested, either with unit tests here or with
diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/io/flutter/plugin/platform/PlatformViewsControllerTest.java b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/io/flutter/plugin/platform/PlatformViewsControllerTest.java
index d3fb9a8659e..f2ca2f89400 100644
--- a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/io/flutter/plugin/platform/PlatformViewsControllerTest.java
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test/io/flutter/plugin/platform/PlatformViewsControllerTest.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import static org.robolectric.Shadows.shadowOf;
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.content.MutableContextWrapper;
 import android.content.res.AssetManager;
+import android.graphics.Canvas;
 import android.graphics.SurfaceTexture;
 import android.util.SparseArray;
 import android.view.MotionEvent;
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
 import org.robolectric.annotation.Config;
 import org.robolectric.annotation.Implementation;
 import org.robolectric.annotation.Implements;
+import org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowSurface;
 import org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowSurfaceView;
 
 @Config(manifest = Config.NONE)
@@ -647,7 +649,12 @@ public class PlatformViewsControllerTest {
   }
 
   @Test
-  @Config(shadows = {ShadowFlutterJNI.class, ShadowPlatformTaskQueue.class})
+  @Config(
+      shadows = {
+        ShadowFlutterJNI.class,
+        ShadowReleasedSurface.class,
+        ShadowPlatformTaskQueue.class
+      })
   public void disposeNullAndroidView() {
     PlatformViewsController platformViewsController = new PlatformViewsController();
 
@@ -667,6 +674,20 @@ public class PlatformViewsControllerTest {
     attach(jni, platformViewsController);
 
     // Simulate create call from the framework.
+    // Before Robolectric 4.8, Surface#lockHardwareCanvas will throw exception at
+    // PlatformViewWrapper#setTexture, because Robolectric doesn't support to shadow
+    // Surface#lockHardwareCanvas, and it uses real Android logic with native pointer address is 0.
+    // This failure will ensure embeddedView's parent is null, because
+    // PlatformViewsController#createForTextureLayer will fail because of previous mentioned error,
+    // and PlatformViewsController#createForTextureLayer will not add embeddedView to wrapperView.
+    // So this test can pass. From Robolectric 4.8, it supports to shadow Surface#lockHardwareCanvas
+    // and it can pass with default true valid value, and
+    // PlatformViewsController#createForTextureLayer will run correctly and add embeddedView to
+    // wrapperView, and initializePlatformViewIfNeeded will fail because embeddedView's parent is
+    // not null. So adding a new shadow class called ShadowReleasedSurface to simulate previous
+    // Surface#lockHardwareCanvas failure to ensure this test can work with Robolectric 4.8 and
+    // later versions. But it is just a workaround, the root cause is this test case depends on
+    // just-failure behavior of Surface#lockHardwareCanvas in old Robolectric.
     createPlatformView(
         jni, platformViewsController, platformViewId, "testType", /* hybrid=*/ false);
     platformViewsController.initializePlatformViewIfNeeded(platformViewId);
@@ -1295,6 +1316,22 @@ public class PlatformViewsControllerTest {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * The shadow class of {@link Surface} to simulate released surface.
+   *
+   * <p>This shadow class's usage is restricted, not for normal purpose.
+   */
+  @Implements(Surface.class)
+  public static class ShadowReleasedSurface extends ShadowSurface {
+    public ShadowReleasedSurface() {}
+
+    @Implementation
+    @Override
+    protected Canvas lockHardwareCanvas() {
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Surface has already been released.");
+    }
+  }
+
   @Implements(FlutterJNI.class)
   public static class ShadowFlutterJNI {
     private static SparseArray<ByteBuffer> replies = new SparseArray<>();
diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/build.gradle b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/build.gradle
index 5d6aca1b8df..52499d2cf44 100644
--- a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/build.gradle
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/build.gradle
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ android {
     implementation files(project.property("flutter_jar"))
     testImplementation "androidx.test:core:1.4.0"
     testImplementation "com.google.android.play:core:1.8.0"
-    testImplementation "com.ibm.icu:icu4j:69.1"
-    testImplementation "org.robolectric:robolectric:4.7.3"
+    testImplementation "org.robolectric:robolectric:4.8.1"
     testImplementation "junit:junit:4.13"
     testImplementation "androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.3"
 
diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/src/main/resources/robolectric.properties b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/src/main/resources/robolectric.properties
index ba72a7e57eb..ac3b918cdd7 100644
--- a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/src/main/resources/robolectric.properties
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/android/test_runner/src/main/resources/robolectric.properties
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-sdk=31
+sdk=32
 shadows=io.flutter.CustomShadowContextImpl