diff --git a/android/arch.go b/android/arch.go
index 9e79e31..27ce4d4 100644
--- a/android/arch.go
+++ b/android/arch.go
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@
 			panic(fmt.Errorf("unexpected tag format %q", field.Tag))
 		}
 		// these tags don't need to be present in the runtime generated struct type.
-		values = RemoveListFromList(values, []string{"arch_variant", "variant_prepend", "path"})
+		values = RemoveListFromList(values, []string{"arch_variant", "variant_prepend", "path", "replace_instead_of_append"})
 		if len(values) > 0 {
 			panic(fmt.Errorf("unknown tags %q in field %q", values, prefix+field.Name))
 		}