diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/flask/__init__.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/flask/__init__.py
index b2729420da..4b05e5ff84 100644
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/flask/__init__.py
+++ b/pythonforandroid/recipes/flask/__init__.py
@@ -1,17 +1,10 @@
+from pythonforandroid.recipe import PyProjectRecipe
 
-from pythonforandroid.recipe import PythonRecipe
 
-
-class FlaskRecipe(PythonRecipe):
-    version = '2.0.3'
+class FlaskRecipe(PyProjectRecipe):
+    version = '3.1.1'
     url = 'https://github.com/pallets/flask/archive/{version}.zip'
-
-    depends = ['setuptools']
-
-    python_depends = ['jinja2', 'werkzeug', 'markupsafe', 'itsdangerous', 'click']
-
-    call_hostpython_via_targetpython = False
-    install_in_hostpython = False
+    python_depends = ['jinja2', 'werkzeug', 'markupsafe', 'itsdangerous', 'click', 'blinker']
 
 
 recipe = FlaskRecipe()