diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 537cee3c6..f02e4e161 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ android {
 
         externalNativeBuild {
             cmake {
-                arguments '-DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=clang', '-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared', '-DEVENT__DISABLE_OPENSSL=on'
+                arguments '-DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=clang', '-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared'
                 targets 'flipper', 'event_shared', 'event_extra_shared', 'event_core_shared'
             }
         }
diff --git a/android/third-party/overrides/Folly/build.gradle b/android/third-party/overrides/Folly/build.gradle
index 5d80a3b91..7f003971d 100644
--- a/android/third-party/overrides/Folly/build.gradle
+++ b/android/third-party/overrides/Folly/build.gradle
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ android {
         buildConfigField "boolean", "IS_INTERNAL_BUILD", 'true'
         externalNativeBuild {
             cmake {
-                arguments '-DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=clang', '-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared', '-DEVENT__DISABLE_OPENSSL=on'
+                arguments '-DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=clang', '-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared'
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/CMakeLists.txt b/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/CMakeLists.txt
index 35a991e3b..ae21a21e2 100644
--- a/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ option(EVENT__DISABLE_THREAD_SUPPORT
     "Define if libevent should not be compiled with thread support" OFF)
 
 option(EVENT__DISABLE_OPENSSL
-    "Define if libevent should build without support for OpenSSL encryption" OFF)
+    "Define if libevent should build without support for OpenSSL encryption" ON)
 
 option(EVENT__DISABLE_BENCHMARK
     "Defines if libevent should build without the benchmark executables" OFF)
diff --git a/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/build.gradle b/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/build.gradle
index b5b722850..019c3b121 100644
--- a/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/build.gradle
+++ b/android/third-party/overrides/LibEvent/build.gradle
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ android {
         targetSdkVersion rootProject.targetSdkVersion
         externalNativeBuild {
             cmake {
-                arguments '-DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=clang', '-DEVENT__DISABLE_OPENSSL=on'
+                arguments '-DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=clang'
             }
         }
     }