diff --git a/android/apex.go b/android/apex.go
index 5dcf73b..958b6aa 100644
--- a/android/apex.go
+++ b/android/apex.go
@@ -462,6 +462,14 @@
 	AvailableToGkiApex  = "com.android.gki.*"
 )
 
+var (
+	AvailableToRecognziedWildcards = []string{
+		AvailableToPlatform,
+		AvailableToAnyApex,
+		AvailableToGkiApex,
+	}
+)
+
 // CheckAvailableForApex provides the default algorithm for checking the apex availability. When the
 // availability is empty, it defaults to ["//apex_available:platform"] which means "available to the
 // platform but not available to any APEX". When the list is not empty, `what` is matched against
@@ -926,3 +934,9 @@
 		return true
 	})
 }
+
+// Implemented by apexBundle.
+type ApexTestInterface interface {
+	// Return true if the apex bundle is an apex_test
+	IsTestApex() bool
+}
diff --git a/android/mutator.go b/android/mutator.go
index 4ec9604..c0040b7 100644
--- a/android/mutator.go
+++ b/android/mutator.go
@@ -758,6 +758,35 @@
 	return attr
 }
 
+func ApexAvailableTagsWithoutTestApexes(ctx BaseModuleContext, mod Module) bazel.StringListAttribute {
+	attr := bazel.StringListAttribute{}
+	if am, ok := mod.(ApexModule); ok {
+		apexAvailableWithoutTestApexes := removeTestApexes(ctx, am.apexModuleBase().ApexAvailable())
+		// If a user does not specify apex_available in Android.bp, then soong provides a default.
+		// To avoid verbosity of BUILD files, remove this default from user-facing BUILD files.
+		if len(am.apexModuleBase().ApexProperties.Apex_available) == 0 {
+			apexAvailableWithoutTestApexes = []string{}
+		}
+		attr.Value = ConvertApexAvailableToTags(apexAvailableWithoutTestApexes)
+	}
+	return attr
+}
+
+func removeTestApexes(ctx BaseModuleContext, apex_available []string) []string {
+	testApexes := []string{}
+	for _, aa := range apex_available {
+		// ignore the wildcards
+		if InList(aa, AvailableToRecognziedWildcards) {
+			continue
+		}
+		mod, _ := ctx.ModuleFromName(aa)
+		if apex, ok := mod.(ApexTestInterface); ok && apex.IsTestApex() {
+			testApexes = append(testApexes, aa)
+		}
+	}
+	return RemoveListFromList(CopyOf(apex_available), testApexes)
+}
+
 func ConvertApexAvailableToTags(apexAvailable []string) []string {
 	if len(apexAvailable) == 0 {
 		// We need nil specifically to make bp2build not add the tags property at all,