diff --git a/android/build.py b/android/build.py
index 5898d0f91..3dbbc4bda 100755
--- a/android/build.py
+++ b/android/build.py
@@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ configure = [
     '--disable-icu',
 
     # disabled for now because these features require GLib:
-    '--disable-database',
     '--disable-httpd-output',
     '--disable-vorbis-encoder',