diff --git a/android/apex.go b/android/apex.go
index d1fb6f4..8d99d56 100644
--- a/android/apex.go
+++ b/android/apex.go
@@ -122,15 +122,13 @@
 
 func (m *ApexModuleBase) CreateApexVariations(mctx BottomUpMutatorContext) []blueprint.Module {
 	if len(m.apexVariations) > 0 {
-		// The original module is mutated into "platform" variation.
-		variations := []string{"platform"}
-		for _, a := range m.apexVariations {
-			variations = append(variations, a)
-		}
+		variations := []string{""} // Original variation for platform
+		variations = append(variations, m.apexVariations...)
+
 		modules := mctx.CreateVariations(variations...)
 		for i, m := range modules {
 			if i == 0 {
-				continue // platform
+				continue
 			}
 			m.(ApexModule).setApexName(variations[i])
 		}
diff --git a/apex/apex_test.go b/apex/apex_test.go
index 63d2aab..f8f9b33 100644
--- a/apex/apex_test.go
+++ b/apex/apex_test.go
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@
 	// Ensure that both direct and indirect deps are copied into apex
 	ensureContains(t, copyCmds, "image.apex/lib64/mylib.so")
 	ensureContains(t, copyCmds, "image.apex/lib64/mylib2.so")
+
+	// Ensure that the platform variant ends with _core_shared
+	ensureListContains(t, ctx.ModuleVariantsForTests("mylib"), "android_arm64_armv8-a_core_shared")
+	ensureListContains(t, ctx.ModuleVariantsForTests("mylib2"), "android_arm64_armv8-a_core_shared")
 }
 
 func TestBasicZipApex(t *testing.T) {
@@ -664,5 +668,5 @@
 	ldFlags := ctx.ModuleForTests("not_in_apex", "android_arm64_armv8-a_core").Rule("ld").Args["libFlags"]
 
 	// Ensure that not_in_apex is linking with the static variant of mylib
-	ensureContains(t, ldFlags, "mylib/android_arm64_armv8-a_core_static_platform/mylib.a")
+	ensureContains(t, ldFlags, "mylib/android_arm64_armv8-a_core_static/mylib.a")
 }