diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/BUCK b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/BUCK
index 449f27adafead5..2008eda3ce16a3 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/BUCK
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/BUCK
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ rn_android_library(
     ],
     deps = [
         YOGA_TARGET,
+        react_native_dep("third-party/android/support/v4:lib-support-v4"),
+        react_native_dep("third-party/android/support/v7/appcompat-orig:appcompat"),
         react_native_dep("libraries/fbcore/src/main/java/com/facebook/common/logging:logging"),
         react_native_dep("third-party/java/infer-annotations:infer-annotations"),
         react_native_dep("third-party/java/jsr-305:jsr-305"),
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
index 735904c8058679..7026b51d0c44cc 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
 import android.os.Build;
+import android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView;
 import android.text.Layout;
 import android.text.Spannable;
 import android.text.Spanned;
 import android.text.TextUtils;
 import android.view.Gravity;
 import android.view.ViewGroup;
-import android.widget.TextView;
 import com.facebook.common.logging.FLog;
 import com.facebook.react.common.ReactConstants;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ReactCompoundView;
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 import com.facebook.react.views.view.ReactViewBackgroundManager;
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 
-public class ReactTextView extends TextView implements ReactCompoundView {
+public class ReactTextView extends AppCompatTextView implements ReactCompoundView {
 
   private static final ViewGroup.LayoutParams EMPTY_LAYOUT_PARAMS =
     new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(0, 0);