diff --git a/contrib/android/Makefile b/contrib/android/Makefile
index 906e47a86..574779f74 100644
--- a/contrib/android/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/android/Makefile
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ prepare:
 	# copy electrum to main.py
 	@cp buildozer_$(ELEC_APK_GUI).spec ../../buildozer.spec
 	@cp ../../run_electrum ../../main.py
-	@-if [ ! -d "../../.buildozer" ];then \
-		cd ../..; buildozer android debug;\
-		cp -f blacklist.txt .buildozer/android/platform/python-for-android/src/blacklist.txt;\
-		rm -rf ./.buildozer/android/platform/python-for-android/dist;\
-	fi
 apk:
 	@make prepare
 	@-cd ../..; buildozer android debug
diff --git a/contrib/android/blacklist.txt b/contrib/android/blacklist.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index aaf29e901..000000000
--- a/contrib/android/blacklist.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,107 +0,0 @@
-# eggs
-*.egg-info
-
-# unit test
-unittest/*
-
-# python config
-config/makesetup
-
-# unused pygame files
-pygame/_camera_*
-pygame/camera.pyo
-pygame/*.html
-pygame/*.bmp
-pygame/*.svg
-pygame/cdrom.so
-pygame/pygame_icon.icns
-pygame/LGPL
-pygame/threads/Py25Queue.pyo
-pygame/*.ttf
-pygame/mac*
-pygame/_numpy*
-pygame/sndarray.pyo
-pygame/surfarray.pyo
-pygame/_arraysurfarray.pyo
-
-# unused kivy files (platform specific)
-kivy/input/providers/wm_*
-kivy/input/providers/mactouch*
-kivy/input/providers/probesysfs*
-kivy/input/providers/mtdev*
-kivy/input/providers/hidinput*
-kivy/core/camera/camera_videocapture*
-kivy/core/spelling/*osx*
-kivy/core/video/video_pyglet*
-
-kivy/adapters
-kivy/modules
-kivy/uix/sandbox
-kivy/uix/pagelayout
-kivy/uix/video
-kivy/uix/vkeyboard
-kivy/uix/videoplayer
-
-# unused encodings
-lib-dynload/*codec*
-encodings/cp*.pyo
-encodings/tis*
-encodings/shift*
-encodings/bz2*
-encodings/iso*
-encodings/undefined*
-encodings/johab*
-encodings/p*
-encodings/m*
-encodings/euc*
-encodings/k*
-encodings/unicode_internal*
-encodings/quo*
-encodings/gb*
-encodings/big5*
-encodings/hp*
-encodings/hz*
-
-# unused python modules
-bsddb/*
-wsgiref/*
-hotshot/*
-pydoc_data/*
-tty.pyo
-#anydbm.pyo
-nturl2path.pyo
-LICENCE.txt
-macurl2path.pyo
-dummy_threading.pyo
-audiodev.pyo
-antigravity.pyo
-#dumbdbm.pyo
-sndhdr.pyo
-__phello__.foo.pyo
-sunaudio.pyo
-os2emxpath.pyo
-multiprocessing/dummy*
-
-# unused binaries python modules
-lib-dynload/termios.so
-lib-dynload/_lsprof.so
-lib-dynload/*audioop.so
-#lib-dynload/mmap.so
-lib-dynload/_hotshot.so
-#lib-dynload/_csv.so
-lib-dynload/future_builtins.so
-lib-dynload/_heapq.so
-lib-dynload/_json.so
-lib-dynload/grp.so
-lib-dynload/resource.so
-lib-dynload/pyexpat.so
-
-# odd files
-plat-linux3/regen
-
-#>sqlite3
-# conditional include depending if some recipes are included or not.
-#sqlite3/*
-#lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so
-#<sqlite3
-