diff --git a/packages/platform-android/src/link/isInstalled.ts b/packages/platform-android/src/link/isInstalled.ts
index de53851e1..ea1dc8b3d 100644
--- a/packages/platform-android/src/link/isInstalled.ts
+++ b/packages/platform-android/src/link/isInstalled.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  *
  */
 
+import {CLIError} from '@react-native-community/cli-tools';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import makeBuildPatch from './patches/makeBuildPatch';
 
@@ -13,6 +14,20 @@ export default function isInstalled(
   config: {buildGradlePath: string},
   name: string,
 ) {
-  const buildGradle = fs.readFileSync(config.buildGradlePath, 'utf8');
+  let buildGradle: string;
+
+  if (!fs.existsSync(config.buildGradlePath)) {
+    // Handle default build.gradle path for Gradle Kotlin DSL
+    if (!fs.existsSync(config.buildGradlePath + '.kts')) {
+      throw new CLIError(
+        'Cannot resolve build.gradle file at: ' + config.buildGradlePath,
+      );
+    } else {
+      buildGradle = fs.readFileSync(config.buildGradlePath + '.kts', 'utf8');
+    }
+  } else {
+    buildGradle = fs.readFileSync(config.buildGradlePath, 'utf8');
+  }
+
   return makeBuildPatch(name).installPattern.test(buildGradle);
 }