diff --git a/apps/android_rpc/app/src/main/jni/Application.mk b/apps/android_rpc/app/src/main/jni/Application.mk
index c5509c1f4506..5bf52bdaffc0 100644
--- a/apps/android_rpc/app/src/main/jni/Application.mk
+++ b/apps/android_rpc/app/src/main/jni/Application.mk
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ include $(config)
 # We target every architecture except armeabi here, for two reasons:
 # 1) armeabi is deprecated in NDK r16 and removed in r17
 # 2) vulkan is not supported in armeabi
-APP_ABI := armeabi-v7a arm64-v8a x86 x86_64 mips
+APP_ABI ?= armeabi-v7a arm64-v8a x86 x86_64 mips
 APP_STL := c++_static
 
 APP_CPPFLAGS += -DDMLC_LOG_STACK_TRACE=0 -DTVM4J_ANDROID=1 -std=c++11 -Oz -frtti