diff --git a/android/apex.go b/android/apex.go
index 0d5cac8..a5ff442 100644
--- a/android/apex.go
+++ b/android/apex.go
@@ -140,9 +140,24 @@
 	// DepIsInSameApex tests if the other module 'dep' is considered as part of the same APEX as
 	// this module. For example, a static lib dependency usually returns true here, while a
 	// shared lib dependency to a stub library returns false.
+	//
+	// This method must not be called directly without first ignoring dependencies whose tags
+	// implement ExcludeFromApexContentsTag. Calls from within the func passed to WalkPayloadDeps()
+	// are fine as WalkPayloadDeps() will ignore those dependencies automatically. Otherwise, use
+	// IsDepInSameApex instead.
 	DepIsInSameApex(ctx BaseModuleContext, dep Module) bool
 }
 
+func IsDepInSameApex(ctx BaseModuleContext, module, dep Module) bool {
+	depTag := ctx.OtherModuleDependencyTag(dep)
+	if _, ok := depTag.(ExcludeFromApexContentsTag); ok {
+		// The tag defines a dependency that never requires the child module to be part of the same
+		// apex as the parent.
+		return false
+	}
+	return module.(DepIsInSameApex).DepIsInSameApex(ctx, dep)
+}
+
 // ApexModule is the interface that a module type is expected to implement if the module has to be
 // built differently depending on whether the module is destined for an APEX or not (i.e., installed
 // to one of the regular partitions).
@@ -260,6 +275,10 @@
 //
 // Unless the tag also implements the AlwaysRequireApexVariantTag this will prevent an apex variant
 // from being created for the module.
+//
+// At the moment the sdk.sdkRequirementsMutator relies on the fact that the existing tags which
+// implement this interface do not define dependencies onto members of an sdk_snapshot. If that
+// changes then sdk.sdkRequirementsMutator will need fixing.
 type ExcludeFromApexContentsTag interface {
 	blueprint.DependencyTag