diff --git a/packaging/android/android-build-wrapper.sh b/packaging/android/android-build-wrapper.sh
index 2349bada8..3c024ba17 100755
--- a/packaging/android/android-build-wrapper.sh
+++ b/packaging/android/android-build-wrapper.sh
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ fi
 
 # make sure we have the required commands installed
 MISSING=
-for i in git cmake autoconf libtool java ant wget unzip; do
+for i in git cmake autoconf libtool java wget unzip; do
 	command -v $i >/dev/null ||
 		if [ $i = libtool ] ; then
 			MISSING="${MISSING}libtool-bin "
diff --git a/scripts/android/before_install.sh b/scripts/android/before_install.sh
index 14b7cb4ff..48c1e8bf7 100644
--- a/scripts/android/before_install.sh
+++ b/scripts/android/before_install.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ git describe
 docker run -v $PWD:/workspace/subsurface --name=builder -w /workspace -d ubuntu:xenial /bin/sleep 60m
 docker exec -t builder apt-get update
 # subsurface android build dependencies
-docker exec -t builder apt-get install -y git cmake autoconf libtool-bin openjdk-8-jdk-headless ant wget unzip python bzip2 pkg-config
+docker exec -t builder apt-get install -y git cmake autoconf libtool-bin openjdk-8-jdk-headless wget unzip python bzip2 pkg-config
 # Qt installer dependencies
 docker exec -t builder apt-get install -y libx11-xcb1 libgl1-mesa-glx libglib2.0-0
 # Inject cached 3pp's (if none exists in 3pp dir, we inject zero ones, and all is downloaded in the container)