diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index a46a34cfac..1cd86adfc3 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ android {
 
 dependencies {
     implementation 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'
-    implementation 'io.sentry:sentry-android:2.0.0-rc04'
+    implementation 'io.sentry:sentry-android:2.0.0'
 }
diff --git a/android/src/main/java/io/sentry/RNSentryModule.java b/android/src/main/java/io/sentry/RNSentryModule.java
index 5e5be51026..9b7f428f4e 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/io/sentry/RNSentryModule.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/io/sentry/RNSentryModule.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -146,6 +147,15 @@ public void captureEnvelope(String envelope, Promise promise) {
         promise.resolve(true);
     }
 
+    @ReactMethod
+    public void getStringBytesLength(String payload, Promise promise) {
+        try {
+            promise.resolve(payload.getBytes("UTF-8").length);
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            promise.reject(e);
+        }
+    }
+
     private static PackageInfo getPackageInfo(Context ctx) {
         try {
             return ctx.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(ctx.getPackageName(), 0);
diff --git a/src/js/wrapper.ts b/src/js/wrapper.ts
index b65a432ccf..8f6dbd8003 100644
--- a/src/js/wrapper.ts
+++ b/src/js/wrapper.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export const NATIVE = {
    * Sending the event over the bridge to native
    * @param event Event
    */
-  sendEvent(event: Event): PromiseLike<Response> {
+  async sendEvent(event: Event): Promise<Response> {
     if (NATIVE.platform === "android") {
       const header = JSON.stringify({ event_id: event.event_id });
 
@@ -19,9 +19,16 @@ export const NATIVE = {
         message: event.message
       };
       const payload = JSON.stringify(event);
+      let length = payload.length;
+      try {
+        // tslint:disable-next-line: no-unsafe-any
+        length = await RNSentry.getStringBytesLength(payload);
+      } catch {
+        // The native call failed, we do nothing, we have payload.length as a fallback
+      }
       const item = JSON.stringify({
         content_type: "application/json",
-        length: payload.length,
+        length,
         type: "event"
       });
       const envelope = `${header}\n${item}\n${payload}`;