diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 4ce9c93..a800c89 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@
 #![deny(rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links)]
 extern crate alloc;
 
+/// Use std to allow building as a dylib.
+#[cfg(android_dylib)]
+extern crate std;
+
 /// Re-export of the `ciborium` crate used for underlying CBOR encoding.
 pub use ciborium as cbor;