diff --git a/android/third-party/overrides/Folly/build.gradle b/android/third-party/overrides/Folly/build.gradle
index 7f003971d..5d80a3b91 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'
+                arguments '-DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=clang', '-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared', '-DEVENT__DISABLE_OPENSSL=on'
             }
         }
     }