diff --git a/app/src/nonRoot/AndroidManifest.xml b/app/src/nonRoot/AndroidManifest.xml
index 3fe824bf..7b71a738 100644
--- a/app/src/nonRoot/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/app/src/nonRoot/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -2,5 +2,8 @@
 <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
 
     <!-- Non-root application name -->
-    <application android:label="Moonlight" />
+    <!-- No need to extract libraries for the non-root version -->
+    <application
+        android:label="Moonlight"
+        android:extractNativeLibs="false" />
 </manifest>
diff --git a/app/src/root/AndroidManifest.xml b/app/src/root/AndroidManifest.xml
index 3752ae33..f0cd52e1 100644
--- a/app/src/root/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/app/src/root/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -2,5 +2,9 @@
 <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
 
     <!-- Root application name -->
-    <application android:label="Moonlight (Root)" />
+    <!-- Ensure native libraries are always extracted for root builds,
+         since we must invoke the evdev_reader binary ourselves -->
+    <application
+        android:label="Moonlight (Root)"
+        android:extractNativeLibs="true" />
 </manifest>