diff --git a/native/jni/Android.mk b/native/jni/Android.mk
index e9ca91a..9f99583 100644
--- a/native/jni/Android.mk
+++ b/native/jni/Android.mk
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
 
 ############ some local flags
-# If you change any of those flags, you need to rebuild both libjni_latinime_static
-# and the shared library.
+# If you change any of those flags, you need to rebuild both libjni_latinime_common_static
+# and the shared library that uses libjni_latinime_common_static.
 FLAG_DBG ?= false
 FLAG_DO_PROFILE ?= false
 
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@
 
 ifeq ($(FLAG_DO_PROFILE), true)
     $(warning Making profiling version of native library)
-    LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += libcutils libutils
+    LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += liblog
 else # FLAG_DO_PROFILE
 ifeq ($(FLAG_DBG), true)
     $(warning Making debug version of native library)
-    LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += libcutils libutils
+    LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += liblog
 endif # FLAG_DBG
 endif # FLAG_DO_PROFILE
 
diff --git a/native/jni/src/defines.h b/native/jni/src/defines.h
index a4086f5..05b997d 100644
--- a/native/jni/src/defines.h
+++ b/native/jni/src/defines.h
@@ -19,9 +19,12 @@
 #define LATINIME_DEFINES_H
 
 #if defined(FLAG_DO_PROFILE) || defined(FLAG_DBG)
-#include <cutils/log.h>
-#define AKLOGE ALOGE
-#define AKLOGI ALOGI
+#include <android/log.h>
+#ifndef LOG_TAG
+#define LOG_TAG "LatinIME: "
+#endif
+#define AKLOGE(fmt, ...) __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR, LOG_TAG, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define AKLOGI(fmt, ...) __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, LOG_TAG, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
 
 #define DUMP_WORD(word, length) do { dumpWord(word, length); } while(0)
 #define DUMP_WORD_INT(word, length) do { dumpWordInt(word, length); } while(0)
@@ -116,10 +119,6 @@
 #endif // FLAG_DO_PROFILE
 
 #ifdef FLAG_DBG
-#include <cutils/log.h>
-#ifndef LOG_TAG
-#define LOG_TAG "LatinIME: "
-#endif
 #define DEBUG_DICT true
 #define DEBUG_DICT_FULL false
 #define DEBUG_EDIT_DISTANCE false
@@ -146,7 +145,6 @@
 #define DEBUG_CORRECTION_FREQ false
 #define DEBUG_WORDS_PRIORITY_QUEUE false
 
-
 #endif // FLAG_DBG
 
 #ifndef U_SHORT_MAX