diff --git a/sdks/android/Mentat/library/build.gradle b/sdks/android/Mentat/library/build.gradle
index 4a0efd50..c0f3d9c7 100644
--- a/sdks/android/Mentat/library/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/android/Mentat/library/build.gradle
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ android {
     lintOptions {
         abortOnError false
     }
+
+    // Help folks debugging by including symbols in our native libraries.  Yes, this makes the
+    // resulting AAR very large.  The Android ecosystem seems to be in flux around who is in charge
+    // of stripping native binaries, but for now let's provide symbols and see how consumers react.
+    packagingOptions {
+        doNotStrip "**/*.so"
+    }
 }
 
 cargo {