diff --git a/android/visibility.go b/android/visibility.go
index c28ec93..a597687 100644
--- a/android/visibility.go
+++ b/android/visibility.go
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/google/blueprint"
 )
 
 // Enforces visibility rules between modules.
@@ -190,6 +192,15 @@
 	}).(*sync.Map)
 }
 
+// Marker interface that identifies dependencies that are excluded from visibility
+// enforcement.
+type ExcludeFromVisibilityEnforcementTag interface {
+	blueprint.DependencyTag
+
+	// Method that differentiates this interface from others.
+	ExcludeFromVisibilityEnforcement()
+}
+
 // The rule checker needs to be registered before defaults expansion to correctly check that
 // //visibility:xxx isn't combined with other packages in the same list in any one module.
 func RegisterVisibilityRuleChecker(ctx RegisterMutatorsContext) {
@@ -389,6 +400,12 @@
 
 	// Visit all the dependencies making sure that this module has access to them all.
 	ctx.VisitDirectDeps(func(dep Module) {
+		// Ignore dependencies that have an ExcludeFromVisibilityEnforcementTag
+		tag := ctx.OtherModuleDependencyTag(dep)
+		if _, ok := tag.(ExcludeFromVisibilityEnforcementTag); ok {
+			return
+		}
+
 		depName := ctx.OtherModuleName(dep)
 		depDir := ctx.OtherModuleDir(dep)
 		depQualified := qualifiedModuleName{depDir, depName}