diff --git a/src/libcamera/base/meson.build b/src/libcamera/base/meson.build
index b57774f4..e13a2f43 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/base/meson.build
+++ b/src/libcamera/base/meson.build
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ libcamera_base_deps = [
     libunwind,
 ]
 
+if host_machine.system() == 'android'
+    libcamera_soversion = ''
+endif
+
 # Internal components must use the libcamera_base_private dependency to enable
 # the use of headers which must not be exposed to the libcamera public api.
 libcamera_base_args = [ '-DLIBCAMERA_BASE_PRIVATE' ]
diff --git a/src/libcamera/meson.build b/src/libcamera/meson.build
index 6aedacbd..49c1bede 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/meson.build
+++ b/src/libcamera/meson.build
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ libcamera_shader_headers = custom_target(
 
 libcamera_internal_headers += libcamera_shader_headers
 
+if host_machine.system() == 'android'
+    libcamera_soversion = ''
+endif
+
 # We add '/' to the build_rpath as a 'safe' path to act as a boolean flag.
 # The build_rpath is stripped at install time by meson, so we determine at
 # runtime if the library is running from an installed location by checking