diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cf831351..60b5ae10 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -204,4 +204,7 @@ vulkanCapsViewer/vulkanreport.json
 !data/models/voyager/*.obj
 
 # DLLs in bin
-!bin/*.dll
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+!bin/*.dll
+
+# Android validation layer libraries
+android/layers/*/*.so
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diff --git a/android/layers/README.md b/android/layers/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..45efa239
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/layers/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Android validation layers
+
+Put the pre-built validation layers into the folder for the architecture you're targeting.
+
+E.g. for armeabi-v7a:
+
+./armeabi-v7a/libVkLayer_core_validation.so
+./armeabi-v7a/libVkLayer_object_tracker.so
+...
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