diff --git a/android/arch.go b/android/arch.go
index 7f9abc6..af3919c 100644
--- a/android/arch.go
+++ b/android/arch.go
@@ -1072,19 +1072,30 @@
 	return ret
 }
 
+func preferTargets(targets []Target, filters ...string) []Target {
+	for _, filter := range filters {
+		buildTargets := filterMultilibTargets(targets, filter)
+		if len(buildTargets) > 0 {
+			return buildTargets
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Use the module multilib setting to select one or more targets from a target list
 func decodeMultilib(multilib string, targets []Target, prefer32 bool) ([]Target, error) {
 	buildTargets := []Target{}
-	if multilib == "first" {
-		if prefer32 {
-			multilib = "prefer32"
-		} else {
-			multilib = "prefer64"
-		}
-	}
+
 	switch multilib {
 	case "common":
-		buildTargets = append(buildTargets, getCommonTargets(targets)...)
+		buildTargets = getCommonTargets(targets)
+	case "common_first":
+		buildTargets = getCommonTargets(targets)
+		if prefer32 {
+			buildTargets = append(buildTargets, preferTargets(targets, "lib32", "lib64")...)
+		} else {
+			buildTargets = append(buildTargets, preferTargets(targets, "lib64", "lib32")...)
+		}
 	case "both":
 		if prefer32 {
 			buildTargets = append(buildTargets, filterMultilibTargets(targets, "lib32")...)
@@ -1097,16 +1108,14 @@
 		buildTargets = filterMultilibTargets(targets, "lib32")
 	case "64":
 		buildTargets = filterMultilibTargets(targets, "lib64")
+	case "first":
+		if prefer32 {
+			buildTargets = preferTargets(targets, "lib32", "lib64")
+		} else {
+			buildTargets = preferTargets(targets, "lib64", "lib32")
+		}
 	case "prefer32":
-		buildTargets = filterMultilibTargets(targets, "lib32")
-		if len(buildTargets) == 0 {
-			buildTargets = filterMultilibTargets(targets, "lib64")
-		}
-	case "prefer64":
-		buildTargets = filterMultilibTargets(targets, "lib64")
-		if len(buildTargets) == 0 {
-			buildTargets = filterMultilibTargets(targets, "lib32")
-		}
+		buildTargets = preferTargets(targets, "lib32", "lib64")
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(`compile_multilib must be "both", "first", "32", "64", or "prefer32" found %q`,
 			multilib)