diff --git a/toolchain/Android.cmake b/toolchain/Android.cmake
--- a/toolchain/Android.cmake
+++ b/toolchain/Android.cmake
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
 #     directories in the NDK. Default: ``armeabi-v7a``.
 # ``ANDROID_SDK_BUILD_TOOLS_REVISION``
 #     The build tools version to use. Default: ``21.1.1``.
+# ``ANDROID_EXTRA_LIBS``
+#     The ";"-separated list of full paths to libs to include in resulting APK.
 #
 # For integrating other libraries which are not part of the Android toolchain,
 # like Qt5, and installed to a separate prefix on the host system, the install
diff --git a/toolchain/ECMAndroidDeployQt.cmake b/toolchain/ECMAndroidDeployQt.cmake
--- a/toolchain/ECMAndroidDeployQt.cmake
+++ b/toolchain/ECMAndroidDeployQt.cmake
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
         COMMAND cmake -E copy_directory "${ANDROID_APK_DIR}" "${EXPORT_DIR}"
         COMMAND cmake -E copy "$<TARGET_FILE:${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}>" "${EXECUTABLE_DESTINATION_PATH}"
         COMMAND LANG=C cmake "-DTARGET=$<TARGET_FILE:${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}>" -P ${_CMAKE_ANDROID_DIR}/hasMainSymbol.cmake
-        COMMAND LANG=C cmake -DINPUT_FILE="${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}-deployment.json.in" -DOUTPUT_FILE="${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}-deployment.json" "-DTARGET=$<TARGET_FILE:${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}>" "-DOUTPUT_DIR=$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}>" "-DEXPORT_DIR=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}" "-DECM_ADDITIONAL_FIND_ROOT_PATH=\"${ECM_ADDITIONAL_FIND_ROOT_PATH}\"" -P ${_CMAKE_ANDROID_DIR}/specifydependencies.cmake
+        COMMAND LANG=C cmake -DINPUT_FILE="${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}-deployment.json.in" -DOUTPUT_FILE="${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}-deployment.json" "-DTARGET=$<TARGET_FILE:${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}>" "-DOUTPUT_DIR=$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}>" "-DEXPORT_DIR=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}" "-DECM_ADDITIONAL_FIND_ROOT_PATH=\"${ECM_ADDITIONAL_FIND_ROOT_PATH}\"" "-DANDROID_EXTRA_LIBS=\"${ANDROID_EXTRA_LIBS}\"" -P ${_CMAKE_ANDROID_DIR}/specifydependencies.cmake
         COMMAND $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:Qt5::qmake>/androiddeployqt --gradle --input "${QTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET}-deployment.json" --output "${EXPORT_DIR}" --deployment bundled ${arguments}
     )
 
diff --git a/toolchain/specifydependencies.cmake b/toolchain/specifydependencies.cmake
--- a/toolchain/specifydependencies.cmake
+++ b/toolchain/specifydependencies.cmake
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
     endif()
 endforeach()
 
+if (ANDROID_EXTRA_LIBS)
+    foreach (extralib ${ANDROID_EXTRA_LIBS})
+        message(STATUS "manually specified extra library: " ${extralib})
+        list(APPEND extralibs ${extralib})
+    endforeach()
+endif()
+
 if(extralibs)
     string(REPLACE ";" "," libs "${extralibs}")
     set(extralibs "\"android-extra-libs\": \"${libs}\",")