diff --git a/briar-android/.gitignore b/briar-android/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a863a56ecd998bbdb307a662a1cf6225dd40dcfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/briar-android/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bin
+gen
+res
+local.properties
diff --git a/briar-android/ant.properties b/briar-android/ant.properties
index b0971e891efd3aee7a035221ad0b86e11d1e8fe2..2c9a6887641f904c475a13325146d5f6cce9e384 100644
--- a/briar-android/ant.properties
+++ b/briar-android/ant.properties
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 #  'source.dir' for the location of your java source folder and
 #  'out.dir' for the location of your output folder.
 
+source.dir=src:../briar-core/src
+external.libs.dir=../briar-core/libs
+
 # You can also use it define how the release builds are signed by declaring
 # the following properties:
 #  'key.store' for the location of your keystore and
diff --git a/briar-android/custom_rules.xml b/briar-android/custom_rules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee549fbddd5049f9de3881b44da26b252be9caf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/briar-android/custom_rules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project name="Briar" default="help">
+<target name="-pre-compile">
+    <path id="project.all.jars.path">
+        <path path="${toString:project.all.jars.path}"/>
+        <fileset dir="${jar.libs.dir}">
+            <include name="*.jar"/>
+        </fileset>
+        <fileset dir="${external.libs.dir}">
+            <include name="*.jar"/>
+        </fileset>
+    </path>
+</target>
+</project>