diff --git a/core/android_manifest.mk b/core/android_manifest.mk
index a6fc7cf..efa6ae6 100644
--- a/core/android_manifest.mk
+++ b/core/android_manifest.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Handle AndroidManifest.xmls
-# Input: LOCAL_MANIFEST_FILE, LOCAL_FULL_MANIFEST_FILE, LOCAL_FULL_LIBS_MANIFEST_FILES
+# Input: LOCAL_MANIFEST_FILE, LOCAL_FULL_MANIFEST_FILE, LOCAL_FULL_LIBS_MANIFEST_FILES,
+#        LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS
 # Output: full_android_manifest
 
 ifeq ($(strip $(LOCAL_MANIFEST_FILE)),)
@@ -65,6 +66,18 @@
     my_manifest_fixer_flags += --use-embedded-dex
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS),APPS)
+  ifeq (true,$(call math_gt_or_eq,$(patsubst $(PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME),100,$(call module-min-sdk-version)),23))
+    ifeq (true,$(LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS))
+      my_manifest_fixer_flags += --extract-native-libs=false
+    else
+      my_manifest_fixer_flags += --extract-native-libs=true
+    endif
+  else ifeq (true,$(LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS))
+    $(call pretty-error,LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS is set but minSdkVersion $(call module-min-sdk-version) does not support it)
+  endif
+endif
+
 $(fixed_android_manifest): PRIVATE_MANIFEST_FIXER_FLAGS := $(my_manifest_fixer_flags)
 # These two libs are added as optional dependencies (<uses-library> with
 # android:required set to false). This is because they haven't existed in pre-P
diff --git a/core/clear_vars.mk b/core/clear_vars.mk
index 036fea6..3f92156 100644
--- a/core/clear_vars.mk
+++ b/core/clear_vars.mk
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@
 LOCAL_PREBUILT_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES:=
 LOCAL_PREBUILT_STRIP_COMMENTS:=
 LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_DEX:=
+LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS:=
 LOCAL_PRESUBMIT_DISABLED:=
 LOCAL_PRIVATE_PLATFORM_APIS:=
 LOCAL_PRIVILEGED_MODULE:=
diff --git a/core/definitions.mk b/core/definitions.mk
index 2aa2aed..4739204 100644
--- a/core/definitions.mk
+++ b/core/definitions.mk
@@ -2275,24 +2275,15 @@
 
 endef
 
-# For apps_only build, don't uncompress/page-align the jni libraries,
-# because the apk may be run on older platforms that don't support loading jni directly from apk.
-ifdef TARGET_BUILD_APPS
-JNI_COMPRESS_FLAGS :=
-ZIPALIGN_PAGE_ALIGN_FLAGS :=
-else
-JNI_COMPRESS_FLAGS := -L 0
-ZIPALIGN_PAGE_ALIGN_FLAGS := -p
-endif
-
 # $(1): the package file
+# $(2): if true, uncompress jni libs
 define create-jni-shared-libs-package
 rm -rf $(dir $(1))lib
 mkdir -p $(addprefix $(dir $(1))lib/,$(PRIVATE_JNI_SHARED_LIBRARIES_ABI))
 $(foreach abi,$(PRIVATE_JNI_SHARED_LIBRARIES_ABI),\
   $(call _add-jni-shared-libs-to-package-per-abi,$(1),$(abi),\
     $(patsubst $(abi):%,%,$(filter $(abi):%,$(PRIVATE_JNI_SHARED_LIBRARIES)))))
-$(SOONG_ZIP) $(JNI_COMPRESS_FLAGS) -o $(1) -C $(dir $(1)) -D $(dir $(1))lib
+$(SOONG_ZIP) $(if $(2),-L 0) -o $(1) -C $(dir $(1)) -D $(dir $(1))lib
 rm -rf $(dir $(1))lib
 endef
 
@@ -2360,7 +2351,7 @@
   mv $@ $@.unaligned; \
   $(ZIPALIGN) \
     -f \
-    $(ZIPALIGN_PAGE_ALIGN_FLAGS) \
+    -p \
     4 \
     $@.unaligned $@.aligned; \
   mv $@.aligned $@; \
diff --git a/core/package_internal.mk b/core/package_internal.mk
index 06dc1b7..9043710 100644
--- a/core/package_internal.mk
+++ b/core/package_internal.mk
@@ -332,6 +332,12 @@
 LOCAL_DEX_PREOPT := false
 endif
 
+# Default to use uncompressed native libraries in APKs if minSdkVersion >= marshmallow
+ifndef LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS
+  LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS := $(call math_gt_or_eq, \
+    $(patsubst $(PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME),100,$(call module-min-sdk-version)),23)
+endif
+
 include $(BUILD_SYSTEM)/android_manifest.mk
 
 resource_export_package :=
@@ -612,6 +618,7 @@
 $(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE) : | $(DEXPREOPT_STRIP_DEPS)
 $(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE): .KATI_DEPFILE := $(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE).d
 endif
+$(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE): PRIVATE_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS := $(LOCAL_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS)
 $(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE):
 	@echo "target Package: $(PRIVATE_MODULE) ($@)"
 	rm -rf $@.parts
@@ -622,7 +629,7 @@
 	$(call create-assets-package,$@.parts/apk.zip)
 endif  # LOCAL_USE_AAPT2
 ifneq ($(jni_shared_libraries),)
-	$(call create-jni-shared-libs-package,$@.parts/jni.zip)
+	$(call create-jni-shared-libs-package,$@.parts/jni.zip,$(PRIVATE_USE_EMBEDDED_NATIVE_LIBS))
 endif
 ifeq ($(full_classes_jar),)
 # We don't build jar, need to add the Java resources here.