diff --git a/android/config.go b/android/config.go
index e0b661b..e634647 100644
--- a/android/config.go
+++ b/android/config.go
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@
 	BazelForceEnabledModules string
 
 	UseBazelProxy bool
+
+	BuildFromTextStub bool
 }
 
 // Build modes that soong_build can run as.
@@ -272,6 +274,10 @@
 	// If true, for any requests to Bazel, communicate with a Bazel proxy using
 	// unix sockets, instead of spawning Bazel as a subprocess.
 	UseBazelProxy bool
+
+	// If buildFromTextStub is true then the Java API stubs are
+	// built from the signature text files, not the source Java files.
+	buildFromTextStub bool
 }
 
 type deviceConfig struct {
@@ -466,6 +472,8 @@
 
 		MultitreeBuild: cmdArgs.MultitreeBuild,
 		UseBazelProxy:  cmdArgs.UseBazelProxy,
+
+		buildFromTextStub: cmdArgs.BuildFromTextStub,
 	}
 
 	config.deviceConfig = &deviceConfig{
@@ -1873,3 +1881,7 @@
 		s.String(),
 		version)
 }
+
+func (c *config) BuildFromTextStub() bool {
+	return c.buildFromTextStub
+}